...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on. Elspeth Huxley
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure....
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Graham Greene
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
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Woody Allen
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
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Marshall McLuhan
Those who understand will understand.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength
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Jonathan Star
More Quotes By Elspeth Huxley
This was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words could delineate, as insubstanttial as a cloud, as iridescent as...
...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and...
