A Quiet Passion (2016)
Cynthia Nixon: Emily Dickinson
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Quotes
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Emily Dickinson : Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me.
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Emily Dickinson : The heart asks pleasure first and then excuse from pain.
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Emily Dickinson : If I can't have equality, then I want nothing of love.
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Emily Dickinson : This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Emily Dickinson : We deceive ourselves and then others.
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Emily Dickinson : Poems are my solace for the eternity which surrounds us all.
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Emily Dickinson : Clarity is one thing; obviousness is quite another.
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Emily Dickinson : How can you go on loving me?
Vinnie Dickinson : You are so easy to love.
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Vryling Buffam : I was told once, by a clergyman, that I should repent my sins. Otherwise, I would be pursued by the devil. Oh, a sort of spiritual Wells Fargo, I said. He promptly went silent, like patience, on a monument. Appalled but dumb.
Emily Dickinson : For the lost soul, there will be no tomorrow.
Vryling Buffam : For the lost soul, today is quite enough.
Emily Dickinson : Oh I shall miss you if you ever go! Your honesty is sublime.
Vryling Buffam : In the long term, honesty is not the best policy!
Emily Dickinson : Is dishonesty?
Vryling Buffam : I prefer to call it diplomacy. That way, one can turn a tactical defeat into a victory.
Emily Dickinson : Who proposed that?
Vryling Buffam : Oh, I don't know. Probably George Washington, as he was crossing the Delaware, the wrong way. Now, my own. I must fly.
Emily Dickinson : Drive carefully, and don't do anything against god.
Vryling Buffam : I'll stop yodeling then.
Emily Dickinson : Very wise.
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Emily Dickinson : We outgrow love like other things. And put it in the drawer. Till it an antique fashion shows. Like costumes grandsires wore.
