Wrung Quotes

Monroe may have been a bit of an extreme example, but she was given the best stories to suit her talents, she was stroked and cared for and treasured and treated like a little princess, treated as a valuable, talented person. What it was that led her to drink and take pills, I don`t know. I don`t think anyone can put it all together, but it`s too easy to say that Hollywood wrung her out and exhausted her, strained her nerves and destroyed her. I think she`d have gone to pieces even sooner without the adulation and the care she received at the hands of her directors and producers and the big studios.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.