"Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty."

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John Philpot Curran

#Talking Quotes

“You're a mouse studying to be a rat.”

Source : Quoted in Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners (1953)
“Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don't have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and I don't want to go there. I don't see how the music would stay true to the spirit of the work.”
“To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.115, Duncan Baird Publishers
“Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.”
“Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery.”
“Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod”
“Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.”
“After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have the excitement.”

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