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Sally Kempton: I became a...

Sally Kempton: I became a...

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

Source: Cutting...

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Alfred Korzybski: The only usefulness...

Alfred Korzybski: The only usefulness...

The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the...

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William Stanley Braithwaite: Art alone has...

William Stanley Braithwaite: Art alone has...

Art alone has kept her covenant with democracy.

Source: The Crisis, 1915.
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A man never...

A man never...

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees...

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Miyamoto Musashi: People in this...

Miyamoto Musashi: People in this...

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is...

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Sally Kempton: Women are natural...

Sally Kempton: Women are natural...

Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options,...

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Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a...

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He who lives...

He who lives...

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

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Yves Saint Laurent: I have often...

Yves Saint Laurent: I have often...

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed...

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If your body...

If your body...

If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat...

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Michael Caine: I read books...

Michael Caine: I read books...

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

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Bernard Berenson: Art is mind...

Bernard Berenson: Art is mind...

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it...

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Yves Saint Laurent: A good model...

Yves Saint Laurent: A good model...

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Source: In Ritz, no. 85 (London),...

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Diane Arbus: I really believe...

Diane Arbus: I really believe...

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

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Miyamoto Musashi: Study strategy over...

Miyamoto Musashi: Study strategy over...

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday;...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: The will of...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: The will of...

The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public...

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Hosea Ballou: Disease is the...

Hosea Ballou: Disease is the...

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Max Eastman: Emotion is the...

Max Eastman: Emotion is the...

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: I have an...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: I have an...

I have an inalienable constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I...

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Bernard Berenson: Consistency requires you...

Bernard Berenson: Consistency requires you...

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Source:...

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