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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#kind #knowing #not knowing #painful #suffering

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#conspires #helping #something #universe #want

If you were to ask me the best time of day to fall in love, I'd say, "Now." But you'd also have to remember to factor in the fact that my watch is eleven minutes fast. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#ask #fact #factor #fall-in-love #funny

Are you a female dog?" "What?" Massie asked. "Why?" "Because you are acting like a real bitch! ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#clique #comebacks #dog #female #fun

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. ↗

— Joel Coen

#characters #condescending #funny #funny thing #i

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis. ↗

— Joel Coen

#any #basis #depict #how #movie

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd. ↗

— Joel Coen

#approach #characters #conceiving #creations #even

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #class #doing #individual #make

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#dead #feel #i #idea #much