"Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble."

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Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.178, Random House

Darin Strauss

#Regret Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Want Quotes

“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
“These shoes are Mr Silly's shoes, Scott.”
“I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.”
“Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.”
“...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.”
“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.”
“In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.”
“Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.”

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