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“My feelings were very, very painful. Every line, every word was—in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer would forbid—a dagger to my heart. To know Marianne was in the same town was—in the same language—a thunderbolt. Thunderbolts and daggers!”

“And when she joined them at dinner two hours after she had suffered the extinction of all her dearest hopes, no one would have supposed that Elinor was mourning in secret over obstacles which divide her forever from the object of her love, and that Marianne was dwelling on the perfections of a man, of whose heart she felt thoroughly possessed and whom she expected to see in every carriage that drove near the house

“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching my films it’s like a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

I’ve always tried to satisfy an audience that thinks they’ve seen everything. I force them to laugh at their ability to still be shocked by something.

"Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne, "when shall I cease to regret you! —when learn to feel a home elsewhere!—Oh! house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you, from whence perhaps I may view you no more!

And you, ye trees!—you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade!

But who will remain to enjoy you?

And the angel says, “It has been approved. I am allowed to show you why. But I warn you, once we begin, we must see it through. There will be no going back. No chances to look away. What you will witness will haunt you until your final moments. You will regret wanting to know. And yet, when I ask you if you truly want to be shown, you will say ‘show me’. No human has ever been able to leave a box unopened.”