“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.” ThinkingSufferingPerfectCitiesTalkingSeeingHappenedHonestNostalgiaBeing HonestBelovedFlawsBaltimore Author:Laura Lippman
“What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.” ThinkingStillsKidsSufferingReactionsLarger Than LifeAmerican Movie Author:Guy Ritchie
“There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.” ThinkingHeartLongBookSoulSufferingDiesBornLive Your LifeDefiniteExteriorLong SufferingAnalysing Author:Paullina Simons
“Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.” IfsThinkingRealLife IsSufferingFightingWalksBreakEventsTeenagerScoreMelodrama Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.” ThinkingJoySufferingBloodDepthAcceptedSigns Of Love Author:Gabriel Marcel