"I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis."

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Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days”, p.20, The Floating Press

Mary MacLane

#Self Quotes #Analysis Quotes #Constant Quotes

“I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.”
“Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.”
“That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.”
“For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.”

Source : Alexander Monro (1994). “Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System”
“The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah. And it will worry and feel anxious if it is settled with the people.”
“Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.”

Source : "Apocalypse Iowa". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 04, 2012.
“War is failure of diplomacy.”

Source : "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.
“It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.”

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