"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."

-- John Updike

#Beauty Quotes #Naked Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes

“In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.”

Source : Hoagy Carmichael (1946). “The stardust road”
“Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.”
“The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially we've already lost in Iraq and it's time to get out - and most of the rest of us who believe not only have we not lost, but we're winning.”
“The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.”
“A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!”
“I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.”
“It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.”
“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”

Source : Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.48, Atlantic Books Ltd

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