Source: Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews
“I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.”
Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948) German field marshal
September 1938. Quoted in "Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance" - Page 128 - by Joachim C. Fest - 1997
“I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself.”
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
"Old Mortality" in Pale Horse (1939)
Context: I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world any longer, she told herself, listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance.
“If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”
Variant: No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you." - Dimitri
Source: Vampire Academy
Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 134
“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I won't be alive so I won't care who finds me.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
