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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#earned #experiences #gallantry #grace #high

Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

#literary #offense #production #social

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ↗

— George Eliot

#discipline #first #genius #great #little

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

#excessive #i #literary #offence #production

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ↗

— Boethius

#give #higher #itself #law #love is

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. ↗

— Sam Elliott

#career #entire #entire career #horseback #i

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#feel #hardly #however #living #may

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#i #i can #me #must #obsessional

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. ↗

— Humphrey Bogart

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But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#asked #certain #certain point #directed #directing