Excerpts from a few memorable lines

Emmitt 2022-04-22 07:01:31

Dinner with an old lover: It's all becoming so bland... It's like a complete breakdown of culture and manners. Closing
monologue: A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds, the silence drowns out the noise, and I can feel rather than think. Things seem so sharp, and the world seems so fresh. It's as if order has come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything they fade. I've lived my life on these moments: they pull me back to the present. And I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

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A Single Man quotes

  • George: If one is not enjoying one's present, there isn't a great deal to suggest that the future should be any better.

  • George: Let's leave the Jews out of this just for a moment and think of another minority, one that can go unnoticed if it has to.