"Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life."

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Source : 1965 Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

Louis Auchincloss

#Perfection Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Wells Quotes

“When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.”

Source : "How You Can Get Everything Your Mom Couldn't". Interview with Ashley Womble, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 16, 2009.
“A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.”
“I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.”
“I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.”
“Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.”

Source : Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.27, Penguin
“And it totally has transformed my relationship with someone like, say, Bach. You know, Bach is born 330 years ago but, you know, gosh, he really is alive.”

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