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Henry Mayhew quote: "Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases..."

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

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I remember that a couple, both tall and thin, turned away from a painting and peered over as if I might be an ex-lover or a living (and unfinished) painting that had just got news of the painter's death. I know I walked out without looking back and that I walked for a long time until I realized I wasn't crying, but that it was raining and I was soaked. That night I didn't sleep at all. Roberto Bolano
The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest. Paul Theroux
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stephen King quote: "I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing..."
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. Stephen King
They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So when the bread didn’t rise, and the fish wasn’t quite done at the bone, and the rice was scorched, he slapped Janie until she had a ringing sound in her ears and told her about her brains before he stalked on back to the store. Zora Neale Hurston
Marjane Satrapi quote: "My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a..."
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. Marjane Satrapi
Tracey Gold quote: "I've got a pretty good appetite right now."
I've got a pretty good appetite right now. Tracey Gold
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. Bridget Riley
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate. Edward Carpenter
Aphorisms should be peaks? and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together. Friedrich Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud quote: "A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every..."
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. Sigmund Freud
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. Wallace Stegner
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. Arthur C. Brooks
Franklin P. Jones quote: "Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is..."
Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business. Franklin P. Jones
Miguel de Cervantes quote: "The eyes those silent tongues of love."
The eyes those silent tongues of love. Miguel de Cervantes