H. A. Berlin Quotes
He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.
This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?
I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.
We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it
Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.
No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.
Winston Breen was solving a puzzle, but then Winston Breen was always solving a puzzle.
The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.
Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.
Anytime you think you hate somebody, what you do is pray for them. Try it, you’ll see.
Let's take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I'll show you some of mine.
When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.
If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.
Winston and his sister walked for a time in silence, each in an invisible, vibrating pocket of excitement.
You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.
Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.
If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we've lost a lot.
A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.
I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.
Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.
She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.