"I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women -- you know -- long-suffering, dutiful -- but all right in the end -- a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers."

-- Peter Greenaway

#Eye Quotes #Feet Quotes #Long Quotes

“Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries”

Source : Albert Pike (1950). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.24, Library of Alexandria
“The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.”
“Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.”

Source : Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt
“I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane”

Source : Wallace Thurman (2013). “Infants of the Spring”, p.120, Courier Corporation
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.”
“I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.”
“the photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding...”
“We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).”

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