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“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say "I don't know the answer!”
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
“It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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