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“Didn't the secret police know the exact aroma and chemical composition of every subversive fart in Greece?”
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
“All of my joys have been pulled out of my mouth like teeth. All my home is nothing but sadness and silence and ruin and memory. I have been reduced, I am my own ghost, all my own beauty and youth have shrilled away, there are no illusions of happiness to impel me. Life is a prison of poverty and aborted dreams, it is nothing but a slow progress to my place beneath the soil.”
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others -- why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion...All I ever wanted was to know *this* world.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“Boys get to keep that confidence [as they age], I think; girls have to give it back like it never really belonged to them.”
― Mary
― Mary
“She tried to control herself rigidly, saying to herself, "I won't look at him for another half hour." But all to no avail. She would sneak a glimpse, his eyes would flicker, and there she would be again, imprisoned by an amused smile and a raised eyebrow.”
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
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