Been sick. Again. Not much for thinking at the moment, so here are some quotes that have been on my mind ... because I've been sick in bed watching movie after movie. In between sleeping, that is.
"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
Paul Varjak (George Peppard) from Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Celine "So you're telling me that successful relationships are made in heaven? Not founded on the daily practicality of two people being prepared to tolerate the imperfections of one another?"
Robert "It's not successful relationships, Celine, it's love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place that we don't know about."
Celine "So you also reject the idea that love is merely an emotional adaptation to a physical necessity?"
Robert "Completely."
Celine "Are you serious?"
Robert "Fate intervenes in people's lives. In ours, for instance, fate brought us together. It kept us together. We were destined for one another."
Celine "Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point."
Robert "But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable, and absolutely beyond control or understanding."
Celine "But you nearly got killed."
Robert "But I didn't... and here we are."
Celine "Do you have any substantial evidence to back all this?"
Robert "None at all."
Celine "And you realize that it's absurd and irrational?"
Robert "I know that."
Celine "Then why do you believe it?"
Robert "Because, Celine, I'm a dreamer."
Celine "Well, I guess that makes two of us."
Celine (Cameron Diaz) & Robert (Ewan McGregor) from A Life Less Ordinary
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Father Brian Finn "I keep thinking about what you said in seminary, that the life of a priest is hard and if you can see yourself being happy doing anything else you should do that."
Father Havel "That was my recruitment pitch, which is not bad when you're starting out because it makes you feel like a marine. The truth is you can never tell yourself there is only one thing you could be. If you are a priest or if you marry a woman it's the same challenge. You cannot make a real commitment unless you accept that it's a choice that you keep making again and again and again."
Father Brian (Edward Norton) & Father Havel (Milos Forman) from Keeping the Faith
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"I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do - by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include."
Pere Henri (Hugh O'Conor) from Chocolat
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