"You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else."

-- Louise Dahl-Wolfe

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“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1964). “Claremont essays”
“Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind.”
“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1969). “The varied airs of spring”, W.H. Allen
“I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.”
“I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.”

Source : "Mario Cantone on His First San Francisco Stint" by Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2010.
“I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.”
“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”

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