#so

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#child #does #doing #else #every

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#book #discovery #elimination #end #find

Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign. ↗

— David Zucker

#absolutely #ad #ad campaign #also #business

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#called #day #day to day #lesson #lessons

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#dead #elvis #fair #impersonators #life

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. ↗

— Angela Carter

#age #certain #certain age #every #female

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. ↗

— Angela Carter

#beginning #compatible #conscience #innocence #parent

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me. ↗

— Billy Carter

#i tried #live #made #me #press

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. ↗

— Angela Carter

#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming