"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience."

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Diogenes

#Dance Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Discourse Quotes

“I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.”
“The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.”
“Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.”
“Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”
“I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.”

Source : Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
“I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an old, married couple, although the established habits will remain in place.”
“Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.”

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