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Holly Golightly

#Thursday Quotes

“I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.”

Source : "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.
“The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]”
“There is no English equivalent for the French word flÃ¢neur. Cassell's dictionary defines flÃ¢neur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.”
“Cinema and theater - it's apples and oranges. You can't really beat movies. Yeah, when you're on an Oliver Stone set everybody brings their A game. Everybody brings their A game, from the top to the bottom and in between. In terms of theater you know there is no way to really duplicate that rush you get when you take an audience that is live and right there in front of you through the journey of a great play and you go through these emotions so that they can experience them without having to go through them themselves.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.”
“If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”
“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.”

Source : "Making Art (and History) Personal" By Bob Duggan, bigthink.com.
“If I don't feel it, I can't play it.”

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