"We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally."

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Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2015). “The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

Amanda Filipacchi

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“This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.”
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
“Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.”

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“Indecision is the seedling of fear.”
“What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.”
“If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low.”
“Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.”

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“Sometimes I think change is a good thing.”

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