"This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind."

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Source : "This Englishwoman" l. 1 (1937)

Stevie Smith

#Behinds Quotes

“I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.”
“Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.”
“I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.”

Source : Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.
“The goal is always about the next story. It's always about the thing I haven't done before. It's about learning, or it's about becoming better, and it's about whatever story grabs hold of me.”
“My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out.”
“I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.”
“Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.”
“I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.”

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