"What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was."

-- Mary McCarthy

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“It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.”
“Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.”
“Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.”
“Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.”
“Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.”
“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
“Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.”

Source : "Working class heroes" by Shirley Dent, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.
“Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.”

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