"Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society."

-- Dominick Dunne

#Party Quotes #Sophisticated Quotes #Ritual Quotes

“Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.”
“By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.”
“Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.”

Source : "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 31, 1956.
“My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.”
“It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.”
“Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.”
“Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.”

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