Josephine Hart Quotes

• Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

  Josephine Hart

  I Hate You, Adversity, People

  "Fictional character: Anna Barton". "Damage", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul;
  we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who
  are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone,
  onto its fluid contours, and are home.

  Josephine Hart

  Home, Water, Soul

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

  Josephine Hart

  Add, Goodness, Prove

  Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”

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• Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

  Josephine Hart

  Memories, Recollection, Pure

  Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”

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• They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

  Josephine Hart

  Keys, Childhood, Soul

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

  Josephine Hart

  Order, Issues, People

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

  Josephine Hart

  People, Survival, Pity

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

  Josephine Hart

  Found, Let Me, Bearable

  "Josephine Hart obituary" by Lennie Goodings, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.

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• We do have choice, but not without some agony.

  Josephine Hart

  Agony, Choices

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• Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

  Josephine Hart

  Needs, Knows, Ridcully

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• We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.

  Josephine Hart

  Life, Sweet, Monday

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

  Josephine Hart

  Lying, Omission, Waiting

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

  Josephine Hart

  Tragedy

  Josephine Hart (2009). “The Truth About Love”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

  Josephine Hart

  Ambition, Winning, Games

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

  Josephine Hart

  Conversation, Imaginary

  Josephine Hart (1999). “The Stillest Day”, Overlook Books

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• Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

  Josephine Hart

  Survival, Vision, Elements

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

  Josephine Hart

  Reality, Thinking, Accepting

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

  Josephine Hart

  Age, Lucky, Odd

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.

  Josephine Hart

  Believe, Opportunity, Joy

  "Damage: a novel".

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• There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

  Josephine Hart

  Life, Soul, Landscape

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• For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

  Josephine Hart

  Bird, Flight, Traps

  Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”

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• Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

  Josephine Hart

  Television, Arena

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

  Josephine Hart

  Art, Passion, Essentials

  "Damage: a novel".

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• Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

  Josephine Hart

  Time, Sacrifice, Men

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

  Josephine Hart

  Home, Wrath, People

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