"She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly."

-- Truman Capote

#Real Quotes #Taste Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
“When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.”
“No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Three Quatrains”
“The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.”
“If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.”
“Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.”
“That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.”

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