#r

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#comfortable #fact #felt #i #pretty

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#forgiveness

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#amp #basement #did #enjoy #ever

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#destruction #man #only #prevent #provoke

In Jewish history there are no coincidences. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#history #jewish

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#self-image #self-improvement #life

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#camps #concentration #die #discovered #everyone

I want to share my life with you, to be monogamous with you, and my past is in the past. I wish there was some way I could prove it to you, once and for all. I do have a sordid past, but I’ve never lied to any of the women I’ve been with, and I’ve never promised to anyone the things I promise to you. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#james-cavendish #love #life

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#days #drunk #ford #got #great

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#difficult #fond #get #girl #her