"Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue."

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Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

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“I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.”
“Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.”
“I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.”
“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
“Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.”

Source : Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber
“A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.”
“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.”
“There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.”

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