"Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your speech and blur your memory, making you wonder who are all those people out there and why are they staring at you?"

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Source : Teresa Bloomingdale (1983). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Macmillan Reference USA

Teresa Bloomingdale

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“To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.”
“In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.”
“My pulse whooshed in my ears so fast I could barely hear myself speak. â€œI only haveâ€”â€ â€œTwo days.â€ He squeezed my hand. â€œSo what? You can spend them feeling sorry for yourself, or you can let me help make them the best two days of your life, and my afterlife. So whatâ€™s it gonna be?â€ I stared into his eyes, like Iâ€™d never seen him before. And I hadnâ€™tâ€”not like this. But heâ€™d obviously seen me, better than anyone else ever had. â€œWell?â€ Tod watched me, his hand still warm in mine. In answer, I leaned forward and kissed him again.”
“WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.”
“I'm not looking to do anything for rehab as far as addicts, because that's not really what I do.”

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“I listen mostly to classical music.”
“Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!”
“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -”

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