"I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out."

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Source : L. A. Meyer (2005). “Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

L.A. Meyer

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“Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.”
“Whenever I have a problem, I ask the Saint (ThÃ©rÃ¨se of Lisieux) not to solve it, but to take it into her hands and to help me accept it and I almost always receive a white rose as a sign.”
“I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.”
“art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.”

Source : Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press
“I love getting out of bed for competition.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a very quotatious person.”
“Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.”
“Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.”

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