"The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions."

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Helen Rowland

#Sex Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.”
“If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings”
“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.287, Macmillan
“In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they donâ€™t care about my cinema. In Europe they donâ€™t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.”
“No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.”
“On the set I never know what day of the week it is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You are never really prepared for criticism.”

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