#arlen

Want to buy some illusions, Slightly used, second hand? They were lovely illusions, Reaching high, built on sand. They had a touch of paradise, A spell you can't explain: For in this crazy paradise, You are in love with pain. ↗

— Frederick Hollander lyric

#love

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped. ↗

— Ridley Pearson

#willa #men

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

#became #best #best friend #call #close

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#cannot #election #hasn #parties #pennsylvania

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

Dying is a universe of its own.  ↗

— Arlene Ang

#death-and-dying #fallen #poetry #death

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#down #ella #ella fitzgerald #entertainment #fitzgerald

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#arlen #many #senate #specter #too

Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#ago #because #did #funny #i