"What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?"

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Source : "Fictional character: Mrs. Brown". "National Velvet", www.imdb.com. 1944.

Anne Revere

#Overcoming Quotes #Littles Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“Falling into Donald Trump's trap, or being distracted every time he sends out a tweet is really not leadership. And, I would point you to a historical example, Italy's Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, a larger-than-life personality. People didn't know what to do until somebody came up with a novel idea: Why don't we ignore him? They completely ignored the personality, the man, and focused on the issues. He was defeated twice. Maybe we can learn from that lesson.”
“I'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid!”
“Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.”
“Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.”
“Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.”
“Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.”
“It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?”
“The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything ...”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.283, Atlantic Monthly Press

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