"I don't like quintessential certitude."

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Source : Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Louise Bogan

#Certain Quotes #Certitude Quotes

“Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to face him, I don't make a sound. I don't need to. We're still talking. Every touch he makes, every imprint of his skin is like another word, another thought, a continuation of our conversation. And we're not done yet. Not yet.”
“While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.”
“I have a pretty easy life.”
“I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.”
“Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law”

Source : Interview, 1980.
“I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.”

Source : "The Broadview book of Canadian anecdotes". Book edited by Douglas Fethering, p. 131, 1988.
“Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!”
“I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.”

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