"Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it."

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Alice Duer Miller

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Partnership Quotes

“I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry.”
“I don't really watch that much TV, to be honest.”
“Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An acute example of the need for professional sex research.”
“Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.”
“Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.”
“Good fiction creates its own reality.”
“My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.”
“In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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