"The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever."

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Source : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.74, Courier Corporation

Booth Tarkington

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“What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.”
“The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.”
“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”
“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.”
“Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.”
“It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.”
“Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.”

Source : Elliot Perlman (1999). “The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
“If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.”

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