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Josephine Hart

Josephine Hart Books

Film writer

Josephine Hart was a renowned British screenwriter, known for her adaptations of literary works. Her adaptations include 'The Pianist' and 'A Beautiful Mind', which received widespread acclaim and multiple awards.

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“C'è un paesaggio interiore, una geografia dell'anima;ne cerchiamo gli elementi per tutta la vita.”

Life Lessons Inspirational Life

Book:Damage

Source: Damage

“Dopo una tragedia, molti dei superstiti si sentono perduti.”

Tragedy Death Of A Loved One Feeling Lost

Book:The Truth About Love

Source: The Truth About Love

“I want to know what's wrong with loving someone for life? Even when they're dead? What exactly is wrong with that? Why should I put him away, out of my mind? Like he's out of fashion. Does no one love for ever any more? Is no one built for the long road?”

Love Death Profound Memory

Book:The Truth About Love

Source: The Truth About Love

“Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well.”

Past Profound Memory

Book:The Truth About Love

Source: The Truth About Love

“Warriors, in the ancient world, put their souls away for safe keeping during times of danger. I'd put mine away and didn't want strangers to search for it. I might lose it. I'd watched those who'd thrown their souls in front of strangers and their bemusement when it was handed back to them, marked and scratched. Sometimes they didn't even get it back. Well, they'd been careless. Some of them wept, of course. But it was too late. It's murderously difficult to get your soul back, in any condition, once you've let it slip away from you. There's no search party willing to go out in all weathers to find your lost soul.”

Book:The Truth About Love

Source: The Truth About Love

“The weapon of memory, turned on the self, is an apocalyptic sword.”

Profound Memory

Book:The Truth About Love

Source: The Truth About Love

“And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what was the phrase? 'Condemn utterly what is happening, this barbarity.' But that's all we did. Condemn. And march. But not often enough.”

Responsibility History Profound Ireland

Book:The Truth About Love

Source: The Truth About Love

“She's always loved writers, even more than the books I think. They're like personal friends to her.”

Reading Books Authors

Book:The Truth About Love

Source: The Truth About Love

“When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek.”

Book:Damage

Source: Damage

“We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.”

Men World Life Years Believe Life Is Night Sweet Unique Satisfaction Every Man Our Time Each Day Monday Day And Night Never Ending Through The Years Waterfalls Cascade Life Is Sweet

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.”

Lying Waiting Obscure Concealed Omission

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.”

Thinking Reality Accepting Prepared Available Versions

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.”

Television Arena

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.”

Knows Needs Ridcully

Author:Josephine Hart

“We learn from tragedy. Slowly.”

Book:The Truth About Love

Source: The Truth About Love

“Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice”

Men Time Felt Sacrifice Great Sacrifice

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

People Knows Problem Dangerous Adversity Damage I Hate You Overcoming Adversity Adversity Motivational Overcome Trials

Author:Josephine Hart

“There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.”

Life Soul Our Lives Eternal Landscape Geography Outlines

Author:Josephine Hart

“To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.”

Games Winning Enemy Ambition Invites Ambitious Loathing My Ambition

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since”

Memories Pure Recollection

Book:Sin

Source: Sin

“They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.”

Soul Might Form Results Influence Childhood Worst Security Keys Harmony Preparation Inevitable Lambs Slaughter Good Health Parental Happy Childhood

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.”

Conversation Imaginary

Book:The Stillest Day

Source: The Stillest Day

“All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.”

People Knows Dangerous Survival Pity

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.”

People Should Home Praying Lucky Wrath

Author:Josephine Hart

“That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

People Knows Has Beens Stories Order Asks Issues Dangerous Please Warning

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.”

Feels Believe Has Beens Stills Soul Body Might Young Joy Dies Opportunity Lost Pleasure Known Our Lives Prison Delight Vain Yearning Trapped Mourn Die Young

Author:Josephine Hart

“For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird”

Knows Bird Flight Trapped Traps

Book:Sin

Source: Sin

“Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.”

Ability Vision Depends Elements Survival Sanity Select

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.”

Art Seems Passion Mines Essentials Performances

Author:Josephine Hart

“Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.”

Ifs Happens Age Lucky Old Age Odd

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature”

Facts Mother Essentials Passionate Intensity Petty Farming

Author:Josephine Hart

“We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.”

Humans Prove Goodness Add

Book:Sin

Source: Sin

“Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.”

Found Let Me Enjoyable Bearable Let Me Down

Author:Josephine Hart

“There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.”

Soul Enough Home Water Our Lives Lucky Stones Landscape Ease Internals Geography Fluid Outlines

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“We do have choice, but not without some agony.”

Author:Josephine Hart

About the Author

Born: March 1, 1942
Died: June 2, 2011
Known for: Film writer
Quotes: 35

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