They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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| — | Tallulah Bankhead |
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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| — | Frank Lloyd Wright |
I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.
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| — | Sir Edward Appleton |
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
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| — | Samuel McChord Crothers |
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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| — | ebecca West |
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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| — | Groucho Marx |
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
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| — | Jules Renard |
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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| — | Willa Cather |
