"In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place."

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Source : Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

Letitia Baldrige

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“We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as we have historical assurance that the chapters in Matthew's gospel which contain the miraculous birth are an after addition not in the earliest manuscripts, it seems probable that these two poetical chapters in Luke may also be unhistorical, and borrowed from the Egyptian accounts of the miraculous births of their kings.”

Source : Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.19
“Being in love is totally punk rock.”
“Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.”

Source : "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.
“I'm not used to going out every single night, which you can do in New York.”

Source : "Poppy Delevingne: Fashion's It Girl". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 7, 2010.
“Oh how we want to be taken and changed, want to be mended by what we enter.”

Source : Jorie Graham (1983). “Erosion”, p.10, Princeton University Press
“We all have a responsibility to create a just society”

Source : "Philadelphia art store owner charged with smuggling African ivory", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2011.
“I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.”

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