Valentine de Saint-Point Quotes
It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.Valentine de Saint-Point
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz -
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro -
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
Stars arrive on their own timetable.
Cameron Crowe -
The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Igor Ivanov
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
Valerie Cruz -
I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
Pamela Sue Martin -
When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
L'Wren Scott -
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
J. C. Watts -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
Hans Jonas
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie -
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Irving Babbitt -
History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
Malorie Blackman -
People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
T. J. Miller -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community.
Edmund White -
What are we even doing out here?" Burnett asked, seemingly getting more frustrated the longer he considered things. "The orders were to wait until tomorrow. Why do I give orders around here if no one listens to them?
Christie Craig -
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
Alessandro Baricco -
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
Sherman Alexie -
It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.
Valentine de Saint-Point