"A great city is a great solitude."

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Source : Hermione Gingold (1963). “Sirens Should be Seen and Not Heard”

Hermione Gingold

#Cities Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.”
“I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.”
“Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.”

Source : Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.42, David C Cook
“The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.”
“The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.”
“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”
“If Iâ€™m not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace Iâ€™ve been shown?”
“Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary”

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