"I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said."

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Source : Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

Jean Rhys

#Dresses Quotes #Doe Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.”
“There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways.”
“Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.”
“In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.”

Source : Robert Lowell (1969). “Notebook 1967-68”
“There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.”
“War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.”
“I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.”

Source : Richard Pousette-Dart, Judith Higgins, Paul Kruty (1986). “Transcending Abstraction: Richard Pousette-Dart, Paintings 1939-1985”
“I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.”

Source : "Jack Thompson withdraws from GTA case" by Wade Steel, www.ign.com. November 8, 2015.

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