Anne Desclos Quotes
Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy candidate. Off the field, I showed up as a wild kid and grew up.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.
