"... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops."

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Source : Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.21, NYU Press

Natalie Clifford Barney

#Rooftops Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.”
“I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.”
“To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.”
“What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.”
“The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.”
“I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.”
“We are what we imagine ourselves to be.”
“A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.”

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