"Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again."

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Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

John B. Tabb

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.”
“I donâ€™t know. Dâ€™you think? Heâ€™s pretty wide in the chest.â€ The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, â€œYeah. I work out.â€ Violet asked me, â€œWhat are you? Whatâ€™s your cup size?â€ I shrugged and played along. â€œLike, nine and a half?â€ I guessed. â€œThatâ€™s my shoe size.â€ Violet said, â€œI think heâ€™d like something slinky, kind of silky.â€ I said, â€œAs long as you can stop me from rubbing myself up against a wall the whole time.â€ â€œOkay,â€ said Violet, holding her hands up like she was annoyed. â€œOkay, the chemise last week was a mistake.”
“The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.”
“You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.”
“There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.”
“After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.”
“You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.”
“God's place is the world but the world is not God's place.”

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