Nancy Milford Quotes
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In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.
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To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
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The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.
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Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebody’s else’s sweet flesh.
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There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
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Please don't be depressed: nothing is sad about you except your sadness...