"My own mask stayed just where it ought.……" — Franny Billingsley

"My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice."

— Franny Billingsley

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67 Quotes by Franny Billingsley

Franny Billingsley has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a…
I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but…
The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks.…
...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and…
I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the…
If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe…
It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight,…
It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its…
Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes…
I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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