"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees â€“ And I found her bitter â€“ And I reviled her."

-- Arthur Rimbaud

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“I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.”
“Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.”

Source : John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.53, John Ruskin
“If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“If someone else was in the room, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing what I wanted to do. I would try to play something that the other person or people would love or would like, at least. Nothing was true because I was not playing what I wanted, and they were not listening to anything that was coming from anywhere true.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.”

Source : "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.
“It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.”

Source : Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com
“Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.”

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