"When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it."

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Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

Ugo Betti

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“The showstopper! The icon! The main event!”
“To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.”
“My first poem was a bolt from the blue â€¦ it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. â€¦ it filled me with soul satisfying joy”

Source : "The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams" by William Carlos Williams, W. W. Norton & Co., 1951.
“What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.”
“It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.”
“My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.”
“People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.”
“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.”

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