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last updated: November 28, 2023

Homesickness for the gutter.
-- Emile Augier

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But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.
-- Olive Ann Burns

Source : Olive Ann Burns (2007). “Cold Sassy Tree”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
-- Stephen Vincent Benet

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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
-- Thomas Pynchon

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“Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.”
“Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.”
“The British people are the boss.”
“When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.”
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.”
“When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone to my dad and heard his accent, they thought they were about to hear a five-minute warning to get out the building. People in Britain have always thought it acceptable to make racist remarks about the Irish. The prejudice underlying that supposed joke was everywhere.”
“He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.”