Favorite line….

"The truth is we don’t know what we don’t know. We don’t even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in a dark hallway, and suddenly a new question appears."
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
 
Days get stranger, baby, feel the danger, maybe
You started having second thoughts
Now I'm medicating, it gets agitating
And in your eyes you know I'm lost
 
"Having begun to love you, I love you for ever – in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
 
Rip Torn in Canadian Bacon: "Let me level with you, sir. I would destroy any country, even my own, if my President gave me the order. So you just say the word, sir, and we'll do what we should've done. We'll nuke the slimy Canuck bastards, I mean it sir--we'll wipe their frigid goddamn country off the map!"
 
From Wonder Boys:

During a critique session of a writer's latest short story...

"He respects us enough to forget us, and that takes courage."
 
“Se brillando in silenzio resti accesa dentro me.
Se bruciando e non morendo tu rivampi e accendi me.”
 
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