"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty."

-- George Bernard Shaw

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“I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!”

Source : "Allegra Versace Talks Anorexia, Making A Name For Herself In Fashion" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2011.
“Above anything else, I hate to lose.”
“It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.”
“The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.”
“You must have stuck a finger up your arse at least once.”
“For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'”
“We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction.”
“To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.”

Source : FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 03, 2013

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