"People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration."

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Source : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.8

Emily Eden

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“Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.”

Source : Jessye Norman (2014). “Stand Up Straight and Sing!”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.”
“I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club, and I liked that these simple little songs seemed to be masquerading. They had put on superhero costumes, got all beefy, and here they were on the dance floor. I was interested in that. I can't make electronic beats, so I leave it to the pros like Boys Noize and Chromeo.”
“Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.”

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“There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.”
“Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.”
“If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.”
“What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.”

Source : "Talk With Jim Bishop" by Lewis Nichols, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 1955.

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