"People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars."

-- Dominick Dunne

#Kings Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.”
“I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psycheâ€”but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mindâ€¦.There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.”
“It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.”
“You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
“I would love to work on a Bond film.”
“The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!”
“There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.”
“My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik â€” that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.”

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