"The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives."

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Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

Elizabeth Hardwick

#Weight Quotes #Baggage Quotes #Footnotes Quotes

“I think me, Sean Bonnette and Laura Jane Grace, and a lot of the bands people feel that way about, we're just really honest in our lyrics. I think we got really lucky in that the right kind of people who would appreciate that heard us at the right time, because there are plenty of people that are honest in their lyrics.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I donâ€™t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.”
“The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.”
“I'm a little obsessed with being competitive.”
“When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it.”
“...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”
“Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.”
“One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214

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