“Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.” HeartWholeFactsStoriesHomeBitsPiecesChildhoodEventsWhole LifeChristmasCarrieRepetitionValidityNursery Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told the story, obviously. I wanted it be comedy first, because I felt like there already had been childhood druggy stories that were very serious, and I felt that the unique thing here was that I was a comic and I could tell the story with some levity, and I have been laughing at these stories my whole life.” WritingFirstsHas BeensBookWholeStoriesWantedFeltLaughingComedyChildhoodSeriousUniqueWhole LifeComicLevityUnique Things Author:Moshe Kasher
“As an actress you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood. Working 14 hours a day isn't sustainable, but I prefer it to doing fewer films. I might as well be doing the thing that I wanted to do my whole life.” RealFilmParentHoursChildhoodWhole LifeWelcome Author:Anna Kendrick
“Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.” WayTryingDifferentWholeSpiritCertainSeeingChildhoodGrewGrew UpSimplicityWhole LifeDifferent WaysStayingStay With Me Author:Tim Burton
“I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?” PersonsDifferentEndsEnoughWholeHappensWould BeTurnsFeltInfluenceChildhoodStoresWhole LifeMotiveSensationsAmazedInsignificantColumbus Author:Jack Kerouac
“I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.” YearsI CanSoulWholeLightCareChristianYoungReligionSufferingMemoriesMy OwnChildhoodYouthAnxietyDisappointmentWhole LifeTrialsSuperstitionsBalancedDogmaSeventiesSincerelyTheological Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton