“I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.”
― Make Good Art
― Make Good Art
“Resentment is like swallowing a poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Life or Death
― Life or Death
“It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“Soldiers were coming in with just bits of their bodies, falling in love with me for an hour and then dying.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“They will see the whore, the madwoman, the murderess, the female dripping blood into the grass and laughing with her mouth choked with dirt. They will say “Agnes” and see the spider, the witch caught in the webbing of her own fateful weaving. They might see the lamb circled by ravens, bleating for a lost mother. But they will not see me. I will not be there.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
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