"Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up."

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Margaret Kennedy

#Voice Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Friendly Quotes

“I am coming to the end of acting.Â I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?”
“Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”
“Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”
“I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?”
“There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.”

Source : Joyce Jillson (1986). “Fine Art of Flirting”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.”
“It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.”
“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.101, Penguin

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