"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can."

-- Helen Gurley Brown

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“Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.”
“God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.”

Source : "The Gargoyle". Book by Andrew Davidson, August 5, 2008.
“Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.”
“People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'”
“No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.”
“It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.”
“I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.”
“Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination...”

Source : Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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