"I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life."

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Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

Natalie Clifford Barney

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“We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.”
“Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.”
“Girls weren’t drug addicted, they were love addicted, and that, I’ll learn, is far harder to treat.”
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“Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.”
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“I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.”

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