Josephine Hart quotes:
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Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths.
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We learn from tragedy. Slowly.
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Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
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We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.
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Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.
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There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
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We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
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Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
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That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
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Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.
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All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
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The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.
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Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
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There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.
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Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice
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My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature
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They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.
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There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.
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Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since
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To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.
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Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
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Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.
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We do have choice, but not without some agony.
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Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
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A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.
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For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
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I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.