"Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty."

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Source : Michel Faber (2001). “Under the Skin”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Michel Faber

#Danger Quotes #Allure Quotes #Threat Quotes

“When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.”
“Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.”
“Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.”

Source : Scott Hastie, “Life Collects”
“I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.”
“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.”
“I love having my hair back. It is so important to how you feel, how you dress, how you look.”

Source : "I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.
“I'm the most carefree, happy person you'll meet.”
“My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.”

Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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