#ten

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ↗

— Mark Twain

#biography #buttons #cannot #clothes #himself

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! ↗

— Roland Barthes

#clearly #deal #ending #entire #great

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. ↗

— Mark Twain

#did #does #his #miss #noah

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. ↗

— John Barton

#editor #intended #journal #literary #reader

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#just #mind #nudity #often

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise? ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#get #knows #lot #money #otherwise

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#i #just #listening #music #npr

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#after #aims #develop #done #hand

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing. ↗

— George Orwell

#joy #motherhood #singing #beauty

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond. ↗

— Shania Twain

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