You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
“(…) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother’s generation. (…) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her parents. In many ways, she controlled her own destiny.”
― Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
― Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
“It rains
And rains
And rains.
But there is a sky above the rain,
Nothing can rot the sky.
Earth has turned to mud. What of it?
The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.
(from "A Rainy Day")”
― The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
And rains
And rains.
But there is a sky above the rain,
Nothing can rot the sky.
Earth has turned to mud. What of it?
The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.
(from "A Rainy Day")”
― The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
“No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Some players are so bad they are hated. Some players are so bad they are forgotten. And some are so bad that they are loved, talked about, treasured.”
― Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer
― Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer
“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
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