I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

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• Marlene Dietrich:

  They want you to bring out your intestines.

• Marlene Dietrich:

  Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

• Marlene Dietrich:

  The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

• Marlene Dietrich:

  Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

• Sydney Greenstreet:

  The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get

• Sydney Greenstreet:

  Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the

• Charles Olson:

  This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sin

• Charles Olson:

  You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my troubl

• Charles Olson:

  You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's fal

• Charles Olson:

  You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.