"If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last."

-- Cyril Connolly

#Morning Quotes #Lying Quotes #Night Quotes

“You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.”
“In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.”

Source : Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.31, Vintage
“[Donald] Trump said she [Melania Trump] first arrived in New York City to model in 1996. But Michael Felix, an immigration attorney who specializes in the fashion industry, says if you're a foreign model with a work visa, it's unusual to have to return to your home country that frequently.”
“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2011). “The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel”, p.43, Hachette UK
“Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.”
“All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.”
“Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.”
“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary-it's always imaginary-world in which I would like to live.”

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