"men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it."

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Source : Vicki Baum (1956). “Written on water: a novel”

Vicki Baum

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“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Arabian Nights and Days”, p.135, Anchor
“The stage was our school, our home, our life.”

Source : Lillian Gish, Ann Pinchot (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me”
“The first humans to come to Canada were the Indians. There is some mystery as to where the Indians came from. Some experts say that they came from the same place as the Eskimo. This doesn't help much because nobody knows where the Eskimo came from either. (Except the Eskimo, and they aren't talking.)”
“Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.54, New Directions Publishing
“I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.”
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
“I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.”
“I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.”

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