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“Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.”
― Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

“Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.

(Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) ”
― Gloria Anzaldúa

“There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.”
― W. Clement Stone

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?”
― Katharine Hepburn

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
― jonathan safran foer

“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.”
― Marlon Brando

“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.”
― Marlon Brando

“I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.”
― Marlon Brando, Songs My Mother Taught Me

“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”
― Marlon Brando

“‎We only have so many faces in our pockets”
― Marlon Brando

“(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.”
― marlon brando

“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”
― Marlon Brando

“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”
― Marlon Brando

“I often ask, "What do you want to work at? If you have the chance. When you get out of school, college, the service, etc."

Some answer right off and tell their definite plans and projects, highly approved by Papa. I'm pleased for them* but it's a bit boring, because they are such squares.

Quite a few will, with prompting, come out with astounding stereotyped, conceited fantasies, such as becoming a movie actor when they are "discovered" "like Marlon Brando, but in my own way."

Very rarely somebody will, maybe defiantly and defensively, maybe diffidently but proudly, make you know that he knows very well what he is going to do; it is something great; and he is indeed already doing it, which is the real test.

The usual answer, perhaps the normal answer, is "I don't know," meaning, "I'm looking; I haven't found the right thing; it's discouraging but not hopeless."

But the terrible answer is, "Nothing." The young man doesn't want to do anything.

I remember talking to half a dozen young fellows at Van Wagner's Beach outside of Hamilton, Ontario; and all of them had this one thing to say: "Nothing." They didn't believe that what to work at was the kind of thing one wanted. They rather expected that two or three of them would work for the electric company in town, but they couldn't care less, I turned away from the conversation abruptly because of the uncontrollable burning tears in my eyes and constriction in my chest. Not feeling sorry for them, but tears of frank dismay for the waste of our humanity (they were nice kids). And it is out of that incident that many years later I am writing this book.”
― Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”
― Katherine Hepburn

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
― Katherine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“You can’t change the music of your soul.

—In Esquire, 1967”
― Katharine Hepburn