"When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists."

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Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

Gene Tierney

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“I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.”
“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

Source : "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.
“Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.”
“I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.”
“Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.”
“Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.”
“The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.”
“There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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