Blood Kurdling Observation Quotes & Sayings

When I was twenty-three I began seeing a psychotherapist because I couldn't bear the idea that, after the end of an affair, all our shared memories might be expunged from the mind of the other, that they might no longer exist outside my own belief they'd happened. I couldn't accept the possibility of being the only one who would remember everything about those moments as carefully as I tried to remember them. My life, which exists mostly in the memories of the people I've known, is deteriorating at the rate of physiological decay. A color, a sensation, the way someone said a single word - soon it will all be gone. In a hundred and fifty years no one alive will ever have known me. Being forgotten like that, entering that great and ongoing blank, seems more like death than death. — Sarah Manguso

From private flood. / Drama of each season / plots doom from above, / yet all allergic reason / moves to our minor love — Sylvia Plath

I like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to. — Elaine Stritch

Shut up body and do what I tell you — Jens Voigt

An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy. — John Irving

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn. — Eddie Marsan

JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere. — Alfred Jarry

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.' — Martin Cruz Smith

Kili and Fili rushed for their bags and brought back little fiddles; Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats; Bombur produced a drum — J.R.R. Tolkien

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before! — Gail Carriger