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“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”

People Mean Made Hands Faces Order Names Waiting Realizing Morning Crime Goes On Rounds Lists Fixed Shock Treatment Nurse Dread Every Morning Psychiatry Weeping Fashionable Polished

Book:Faces in the water

Source: Faces in the water

“Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor”

Ifs Actors Acting Emotion Audience Cry Objects Emotional Shirts Weeping Wailing Bad Acting

Author:Rex Harrison

“A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.”

“In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.”

Children Soul Reality Calling Noise Traffic Midnight Weeping Waterfalls Stalling

Author:Pete Townshend

“There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.”

Song Stars Nature Land Dying Stones Ears Lays Staring Everlasting Rumor Weeping

Book:The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson”

World Made War Peace Hell Sky This World Lessons Horror Disease Infinite Flesh Tales Smoke Weeping Earthquakes Bleeding

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.”

Philosophy Enemy Creating Fists Weeping Shaking Wailing

Author:Don Henley