Dorothea Dix Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time. – Dorothea Dix Habit Quotes Killing Quotes People Quotes Time Quotes Unhappy Quotes Variance Quotes As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness. There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one’s self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.
Peter Bogdanovich The end of the studio system signalled the end of the great screen stars. They were the sort of actors who brought their own charismatic personas to each role they played. Audiences felt as if they knew them immediately every time they watched one of their movies. – Peter Bogdanovich
Andre Aciman Authors use ‘almost’ to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome – some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct – in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that. – Andre Aciman
Hamish Bowles I literally in the New York flea market – just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find – found a 1926 Chanel. – Hamish Bowles
Iris Dement Writing, overall, has never been what I’d call fun. It’s fulfilling. It doesn’t come real easy for me. – Iris Dement
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