"The two oldest professions in the world â€” ruined by amateurs."

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Source : Shouts and Murmurs "The Actor and the Streetwalker" (1922)

Alexander Woollcott

#Two Quotes #World Quotes #Ruined Quotes

“Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.”

Source : "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.
“Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.”
“We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.”
“Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.”
“If youâ€™re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they donâ€™t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money theyâ€™re paying it back with.”
“If one wants to be called a queen, one should act with civility and grace.”

Source : "Interview with Jinkx Monsoon: Host for the 7th Annual Academy Awards Party at Seattle Cinerama". Interview with Brian Peterson, seattlegayscene.com. February 22, 2012.
“I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.”
“I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.”

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