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Shana Alexander Quotes
«Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.»
«An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts.»
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«Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.»
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«The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.»
«A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.»
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«What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.»
«The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man»
«At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.»
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«I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.»
«Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.»