“woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“As hard as it was to hold on to things, it was even harder to let them go.”
― The Good Daughter
― The Good Daughter
“Nazism in politics was a form of statism. In principle, it did not represent a new approach to government; it was a continuation of the political absolutism—the absolute monarchies, the oligarchies, the theocracies, the random tyrannies—which has characterized most of human history.”
― The Cause of Hitler's Germany
― The Cause of Hitler's Germany
“Es gibt einen Ort in uns, wo es praktisch die ganze Zeit regnet, die Schatten immer lang und der Wald voller Ungeheuer ist.”
― The Running Man
― The Running Man
“But it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality itself was a stage set that could be dismantled at any moment, and that no matter how magnificent anything appeared, it could be swept aside into the debris of the past.”
― Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography
― Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography
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