"Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ..."

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Source : Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

Mary Renault

#Speech Quotes #Dull Quotes #Common Quotes

“It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.”
“I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else.”
“The measure of love is love without measure.”

Source : Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux), William (of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry), Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1983). “The love of God, and spiritual friendship”, Multnomah Pub
“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.”
“My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.”
“I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.”
“Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.”
“Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.”

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