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Carol Matthau
Born
in New York City, NY, The United States
September 11, 1924
Died
July 20, 2003
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Among the Porcupines
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published
1992
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15 editions
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The Secret in the Daisy
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published
1955
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6 editions
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“Worrying about clothes, though, is easy to understand. When it comes to clothes, people are very competitive, especially if they're movie stars. I think every smart woman devises a look for herself. Margaret Sullivan had a look: romantic, young, pretty, smart. Katharine Hepburn made a look for herself as this wonderful old salty character. Marilyn Monroe had a look; it was like, "Fuck me with sadness"...”
― Among the Porcupines
― Among the Porcupines
“On a cold winter day, a group of porcupines huddled together closely to save themselves by their mutual warmth from freezing. But soon they felt the mutual quills and drew apart. Whenever the need for warmth brought them closer together again, this second evil was repeated, so that they were tossed back and forth between these two kinds of suffering until they discovered a moderate distance that proved most tolerable. – Thus the need for company, born of the emptiness and monotony inside them, drives men together; but their many revolting qualities and intolerable faults repel them again. The medium distance that they finally discover and that makes association possible is politeness and good manners. Whoever does not keep this distance is told, among the British: keep your distance! – To be sure, this only permits imperfect satisfaction of the need for mutual warmth, but it also keeps one from feeling the prick of the quills. – But whoever possesses much inner warmth of his own will prefer to avoid company lest he cause or suffer annoyance.
Schopenhauer, as quoted by Carol Matthau”
― Among the Porcupines
Schopenhauer, as quoted by Carol Matthau”
― Among the Porcupines
