#si

My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her. ↗

— Maria Bello

#biggest dream #captain #dream #dressed #fell

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#falls #life #loss #possession #shadow

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#make #second #sing #songs #them

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#beings #broader #coherent #comprehensive #flexible

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#door #everybody #his #insignificance #keep

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#between #call #false #few #impressions

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#america #american #american culture #business #centre

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#alive #anymore #few #forever #hate

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#cross #jesus #jews #killed #political