Look what I found…
…clearing out old boxes of papers from my parent’s storage…I’d pulled these fabulous quotes out from ‘The Lady’s Not for Burning’ (Christopher Fry) during a script analysis class back in NIDA days…
‘I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value’
‘Pride is one of the deadly sins. And it’s better to go for the lively ones.’
‘…I was dreaming I stood on Jacob’s ladder, waiting for the gates to open. And the ladder was made entirely of diminished sevenths. I was surprised but not put out. Nothing is altogether what we suppose it to be.’
I wish I were a thinking man, very much. Of course I feel a good deal, but that’s no help to you.’
‘All of my friends tell me I actually exist and by an act of faith I have come to believe them.’
‘Innocence! Dear girl, before the world was, innocence was beaten by a lion all round the town. And liked it.’
‘…My father broke on the wheel of a dream; he was lost in a search. And so, for me, the actual! What I touch, what I see, what I know; the essential fact.’
‘You leave me no escape except out on a stream of tears.’
‘…(for what greater superstition is there than the mumbo-jumbo of believing in reality)’
‘…In the name of all who ever were drowned at sea, don’t weep! I never learnt to swim.’
‘What I do with my own tears is for me to decide.’
‘…I have come suddenly upon my heart and where it is I see no help for.’
‘Life is coming back.’
‘Importunate life. It should have something better to do than to hang about at a chronic street-corner in dirty weather and worse company.’
‘I am such a girl of habit. I had got into the way of being alive.’
‘And I’ll live too, if it kills me.’
‘But I remain, like the possibility of water in the desert.’
’..You’re mad and you’re violent, and I strongly resent finding you slightly pleasant.’
‘…I should like to think of you as someone I knew many years ago, and alas wouldn’t see again. That would be charming.’
‘…He’s sick of the world, but the world has a right to him.’
‘I am interested in my feelings. I seem to wish to have some importance in the play of time.’
‘…Nothing in the world could touch me and you have to come and be the damnable exception.’
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