"The test of civilization is the estimate of woman."

-- George William Curtis

#Civilization Quotes #Tests Quotes

“But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.”
“The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true of the women who were offered the chance of becoming plural wives. Apart from the fact that the new system collided with moral assumptions they had grown up with, there were practical difficulties that made polygamy less attractive. For the men to support additional wives was seldom easy.”

Source : Leonard J. Arrington, Davis Bitton (1992). “The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints”, p.197, University of Illinois Press
“Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.”
“WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.”
“Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.”
“Of all the things about de Sade, I would argue he is funny. A lot of people didn't understand de Sade. No. 1, he is a very good writer, and No. 2, he had the courage to talk about a lot of things that in public, even now, almost nobody has the courage to talk about. He would do it with a kind of funny way - not the stories themselves, but the way he tells them. He is never serious.”

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“I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.”
“Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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