Polly Adler quotes

“Your heart often knows things before your mind does.”
-- Polly Adler

Source : Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.348, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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“The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are ***** in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.”
-- Polly Adler

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“A house is not a home.”
-- Polly Adler

Source : Title of book (1954)

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“I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.”
-- Polly Adler

#People Quotes #Teeth Quotes #Kick Ass Quotes

“What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.”
-- Polly Adler

Source : Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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“The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.”
-- Polly Adler

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“My home is in whatever town I'm booked.”
-- Polly Adler

Source : Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.304, Univ of Massachusetts Press

#Home Quotes #Towns Quotes

“It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.”
-- Polly Adler

Source : Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.374, Univ of Massachusetts Press

#Writing Quotes #College Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it.”
-- Polly Adler

#Reputation Quotes

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.”

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”

“The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.”

“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.”

“When one door opens, so does another one.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios