Toni Bentley quotes
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“If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”
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“Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.”
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“To live and to laugh require a reason. But dancing is so close to one's guts that it has no reason and yet it needs none; it's physical, and as a source of good cheer it is end endless.”
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“A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.”
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“A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.”
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“We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.”
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“I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.”
-- Toni Bentley
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“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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“Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."”
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“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
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“A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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