"There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance."

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Source : Deborah Turbeville, Louis Auchincloss (1994). “Deborah Turbeville's Newport remembered: a photographic portrait of a gilded past”, ABRAMS

Louis Auchincloss

#Happiness Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Maintenance Quotes

“If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.”
“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.”
“I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.”
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
“Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.”
“There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.”
“When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.
“I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.”

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