#so

Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. There was something in Mendele. There was a fire. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#philosophy #faith

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. ↗

— Bette Davis

#felt #hell #i #me #moment

Everybody has a heart. Except some people. ↗

— Bette Davis

#except #heart #people #some #some people

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. ↗

— Bette Davis

#challenges #dead #doing #key #life

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#coming home #days #face #home #i

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#asked #dislocated #enough #grind #i

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. ↗

— Jack Vance

#every #fact #get #in fact #job

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#author #focusing #i #i always #ignorant

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#bear #between #carriages #good #i

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#history #pageant #philosophy