"We are each other's magnitude and bond."

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Gwendolyn Brooks

#Ties Quotes #Magnitude Quotes

“I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'.”
“Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.”
“My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.”
“Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.”
“People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!”

Source : "Teen Talks to: Sara Paxton". Interview with Andrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. September 5, 2007.
“Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.”

Source : George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber
“Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.”
“The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.”

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