"She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about."

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Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan

Jeffrey Eugenides

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Audrey Quotes

“I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.”
“A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.”
“Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.”

Source : Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Paulo Herkenhoff, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) (1997). “Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days”
“Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.”
“Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves”
“They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.”
“What will survive of us is love.”

Source : "An Arundel Tomb" l. 42 (1964)
“Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.”

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