"I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better."

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Source : Ruth St. Denis (1969). “Ruth St. Denis, an unfinished life: an autobiography”, [Dance Horizons, 1969

Ruth St. Denis

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“Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.”
“I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.”

Source : "Holland's high-camp hero of new politics". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 4, 2002.
“The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.”
“When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.”
“The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.”
“Since the truth may not be what we would prefer. It is revealing that so many people today express approval by saying, "I'm comfortable with that," and disapproval by saying, "I'm not comfortable with that." Comfort is important when it comes to furniture and headphones, but it is irrelevant when it comes to truth.”
“Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.”
“The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.”

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