"When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old"

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Maxine Kumin

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“It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited
“The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.”
“And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.”
“Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors , and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK . However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers .”

Source : "Natural Born Killers". Movie Review, 1994.
“What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.”

Source : "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.
“There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. Im their role model, so I have to make sure Im always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.”

Source : "Gymnast Jordyn Wieber on Staying Focused and Crushing on Justin Bieber". SELF interview, www.self.com. June 27, 2012.
“A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.”
“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”

Source : "Titus and Berenice". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1670.

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