"I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed."

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S. J. Perelman

#Pride Quotes #Anorexia Quotes #Television Quotes

“This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
“But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?”
“When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.”
“I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.”
“I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.16, Courier Corporation
“A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.”
“The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.”

Source : Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.48, Gale Cengage Learning
“My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.”

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