"These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney."

-- Julie Burchill

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“Most people don't know where they stand. One day their boss gives them an eye roll, and it can set back their whole day. It causes enormous stress.”

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“Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life”
“Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.”
“In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.”
“But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.”
“There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee.”
“I told them I wanted to be a comedian, and they laughed; I became a comedian, no one's laughing now”
“The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. . . But how. The hot summer rustles Like a carnival outside my window; I have long had this premonition Of a bright day and a deserted house.”

Source : Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”

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