"I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon."

-- Alice B. Toklas

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“I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.”
“I'm very happy in France making movies.”
“There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.”

Source : Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”
“I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable. And the things that they say are deplorable.”
“I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And I'm not sure exactly what that is, but our friend, Walter Dellinger, has a theory about it, and I think he's probably right. And the theory starts with the fact that I worked in the White House for a year and a half before coming over to the position of SG. And because of that, when I was nominated, there was some chatter out there that, "Oh. They're putting a political hack in. This has never happened before."”
“Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.”
“Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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