“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― The Lower Depths and Other Plays
― The Lower Depths and Other Plays
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
“There is no fool like an educated fool...”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
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