"I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image."

-- Mary Harron

#Gay Quotes #Pages Quotes #Irony Quotes

“Haters are a drop in the ocean. Theres that much more love”
“I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.”
“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”
“The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”
“Education has a tremendous power on man. Can't we see to which astonishing disciple the people of Sparte have submitted ("s'est pliÃ©", Fr.) for centuries, and this with a view to very petty purposes: purely outer greatness, the military predominace of Sparte. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it ("peuvent tout sur eux-mÃªmes quand ils le veulent", Fr.); therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
“I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.”
“Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.”

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