"Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives"

-- Alfred de Musset

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“But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.”
“I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.”
“Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.”
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.
“Silence is the language of inertia.”
“I go to work the minute I open my eyes.”
“We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.”
“It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

Source : The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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