"To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“Better laid than never.”
“Dogs experience the world as it is, without judgement. When we learn to do the same, we make the world a better place.”
“The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.93, Univ of California Press
“It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.”

Source : Kelly Corrigan (2008). “The Middle Place”, p.37, Hachette UK
“The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.”
“Remarks are not literature.”
“I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.”
“There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that.”

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