#here

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#busy #first #here #i #like

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #bear #bewildered #bizarre #design

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #here #how #i #i am

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis. ↗

— Albert Finney

#characters #each #film #got #haven

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' ↗

— Albert Finney

#blank canvas #canvas #down #front #gregarious

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#biggest #books #closest #coincidence #countries

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head. ↗

— Albert Finney

#ballet #been #head #here #i

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#abstract thought #creation #deny #development #fantasies

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#appreciation #form #good #highest #highest form

The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#because #been #created #even #gorbachev