"Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect."

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Source : Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.33, Pickle Partners Publishing

Billie Burke

#Wish Quotes #Might Quotes #Sin Quotes

“It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.”
“I am a grateful... grapefruit.”
“All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.”
“The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.”
“Like fire and rain, (fire and rain) you can dirve me insane But i cant stay mad at you for anything, Were venus and mars, (venus and mars) were like diffrents stars, but your the harmony to every song i sing, And i wouldnt change a thing..”
“My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.”
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”
“There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.”

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