"All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness."

-- Lawrence Durrell

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“Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.”
“I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.”
“The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.”
“'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.”
“A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.”
“People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.”
“The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.”
“Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.”

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