"Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own."

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Source : Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor

Dorothy West

#Skins Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Bones Quotes

“Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.”

Source : "Jeff Buckley – Grace Electronic Press Kit". Documentary, 1994.
“Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.”

Source : Philip Greenspun (1999). “Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing”, p.202, Morgan Kaufmann
“I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.”
“You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.”
“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”
“I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.”
“...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.”
“Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.”

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