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Vita Sackville-West

"It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall, making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had still appeared to be a living beauty."

-- Vita Sackville-West

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“Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.”

Source : "Fir Dores Fir Tzavoes" (1901). "Alle Verk," IV. 237,
“I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.”
“Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.”
“I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about”

Source : Edward Bloor (2007). “Taken”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.”

Source : Song: Sun vs. Moon, 2005
“What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?”
“All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it's possible to love someone?”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.762, Random House
“Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.”

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