Gail Jones Quotes
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
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Who runs the world? Girls.
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My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
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I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
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In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? Why the constant wealth bashing nowadays?
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Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!
