"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs."

-- W. S. Gilbert

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“Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.”
“I like surfing; I bring a surfboard with me on tour.”
“There is no folly like the folly of the wise.”
“In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.”
“Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”
“There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.”
“Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.”

Source : Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage
“You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.”

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