Theodora quotes
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“I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.”
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“For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.”
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“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”
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“For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.”
-- Theodora
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“What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?”
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“Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse”
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“Once established, reputations do not easily change.”
Source : "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.
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“Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.”
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Source : Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster
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“Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.”
Source : Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.215, 谷月社
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