"the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality."

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Source : Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

Elsa Maxwell

#Reality Quotes #Moats Quotes #Neurosis Quotes

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
“Control me...release me...forget about me.”
“Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.”
“In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.”
“I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.”
“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.”

Source : "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book edited by Carol Dingle, p. 21, 2000.
“I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.”
“Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.”

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