#rites

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ↗

— Julien Green

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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#humble #hypocrites #our #ourselves #proud

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

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Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#especially #everything #good #i #i think

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. ↗

— William Penn

#force #hypocrites #make #may #never

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#course #each #end #first #first of all

I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#evening #favorites #find #i #i love

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

#me #once #rewrites #told #very

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#day #dick van dyke #dyke #every #favourites

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#comedy #deepest #hysteria #moment #writes