“Don’t worry about everybody else. The whole world is full of ‘everybody else,’ you know that? But only a few make a significant achievement.”
“I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.”
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
“…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.”
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”
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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Women
― Women
“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
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