"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face."

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Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.64, Pickle Partners Publishing

Billie Burke

#Past Quotes #Mind Quotes #Faces Quotes

“After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.”
“What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.”
“Sometimes we are to guard our heart...protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart... let certain qualities out and release them to others”
“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu.”
“There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight”
“Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”
“I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.”
“I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.”

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