"There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into."

-- Caitlin Thomas

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“I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.”
“My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.”
“I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!”
“I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.”
“I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!”

Source : Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”
“What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.”
“It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!”

Source : "Eddie Spaghetti! The Story Behind Mike Lange-isms". KDKA.com, May 20, 2008.

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