"If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet."

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Nicolas Chamfort

#Perfect Quotes

“In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.”
“The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?”
“Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.”
“I just made pictures I would've liked to see.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.”
“Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I.”
“All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”
“Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?”

Source : Reginald Shepherd (2007). “Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry”

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