Ive never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure. – Julie Christie
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think its an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. – Julie Christie
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now Im not going to say what they were. – Julie Christie
I never will have peace of mind. Im not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible. – Julie Christie
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordons gin; out of any businessmans life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine. – William Bolitho
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. – Pierre Loti