"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."

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

Elsa Maxwell

#Party Quotes #Giving Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.35, Library of Alexandria
“A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.”
“I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism.”
“If I want to put my ***** on my back, it's nobody's business but my own,”
“My feet are always cold. I'm a vampire," he said in a teasing voice, almost as if he was trying to chase away Holiday's somberness. "And if I remember correctly, you complained about that last night." He slowed down and slipped his arm around Holiday. "Marrying you doesn't scare me a bit. It's the best thing that could ever happen to me. I'd never run out on you. I'll be the first one to the church.”
“To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.”
“The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.”

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