Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.Angela Carter
I see this every day. If it's not a hand-out, if it's not free, if it requires a little work, they don't care for it.
Angela Carter
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
Angela Carter
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question 'Where was I before I was born.' In the beginning was ... what Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.
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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Angela Carter
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
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No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
Lord Mountbatten
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
Bobby Farrelly
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
Ellen G. White