"Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state."

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Source : Samuel Foote (1799). “The works of Samuel Foote, esq. ...”, p.243

Samuel Foote

#Talent Quotes #States Quotes #Microcosm Quotes

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“Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.”
“I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?”
“Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.”
“I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.”
“Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.”
“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”
“Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.”

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