"Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."

-- Joan Didion

#Notebook Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Children Quotes

“Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.”
“This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.”
“I've never looked at myself and thought 'Oh yeah, I'm sexy.' I've felt sexy and confident, but I don't look at myself that way.”
“Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.”

Source : "Peace, war, economy dominate graduation speeches" by Patricia McCormack, www.upi.com. May 29, 1982.
“There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.”
“I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away.”
“I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.”
“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.”

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