"A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead."

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Source : Parade Magazine, May 13, 2007.

Ellen Barkin

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“A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”
“Greatness is not always largeness.”

Source : Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.88, Heart of Dixie Publishing
“You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.”
“It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind.”
“When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.”
“I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.”
“The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.”
“I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.”

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