#in

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#ascribe #entitlement #frightening #gives #importance

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#become #being #book #faster #friend

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. ↗

— John Berger

#dwelling #home #hostile #human #language

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#disappear #disappeared #eighty #fifty #forty-five

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#clooney #collapsed #crying #george #george clooney

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#be grateful #down #film #getting #grateful

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#enjoyed #feel #felt #i #i feel

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#church #definitely #going #housekeeping #how

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. ↗

— John Berger

#being #best #compassion #natural #natural order

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. ↗

— John Berger

#book #covers #everything #four #happen