"Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart."

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Source : Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the BeastLa Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

#Heart Quotes #Names Quotes #Ungrateful Quotes

“Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.”
“Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.”
“Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.”
“There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.”

Source : "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Writer's Digest Interview, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.
“Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.”
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”
“For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail...”
“No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.”

Source : Ted Williams, John Underwood (1969). “My turn at Bat: the story of my life”, Simon & Schuster

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