Shana Alexander Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices”
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“The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.”
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“When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”
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“The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”
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“trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.”
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“This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”
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“Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.”
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“Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.”
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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.”
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“The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.”
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“Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .”
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“As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.”
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“Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.”
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“The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?”
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“Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.”
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“I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.”
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“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.”
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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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“Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.”
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“Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.”
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“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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“The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.”
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“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.”
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“The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.”
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“Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.”
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“We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.”
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“Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.”
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“Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...”
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“Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.”
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