quotation debate

[masterofNone]

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
pablo picasso

[Smartypants]

An artist’s originality is balanced by a corresponding conservatism, a superstitiousness, about it; which might be boiled down to “What worked before will work again.”

--Nancy Hale

[Smartypants]

Originally posted by masterofNone
where the hell is malina?
moN

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
-- Germaine Greer

The worst thing about it is you don’t even know if you’re doing something wrong.
-- Christine Zajac

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
--Orson Welles

[malina]

i, being born a woman and distressed
by all the needs and notions of my kind
am urged by your propinquity to find
your person fair and feel a certain zest
to bear your body's weight upon my breast
so subtly is the fume of life designed
to clarify the pulse and cloud the mind
and leave me once again undone, possessed
think not for this, however, the poor treason
of my stout blood against my staggering brain
i shall remember you with love, or season
my scorn with pity, let me make it plain:
i find this frenzy insufficient reason
for conversation when we meet again

edna st. vincent millay

[Smartypants]

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women—the quality of shifting from child to woman, the seeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, “What does a woman want?”

--Lillian Breslow Rubin

[lapietra]

Googlism for: what does a woman want?

Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about what does a woman want? yet.

--http://www.googlism.com

[malina]

Put everything in fvcking boxes.
Martha Stewart

[Smartypants]

You starveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish!

--William Shakespeare

[malina]

Un-dish-cover the fish or dishcover the riddle.
Lewis Carroll

[Perky Pat]

i hope we didn't shcare the fishes.
-james bond, "thunderball"

[Smartypants]

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do—so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses?

--Mrs. Campbell Patrick, (1865–1940), British actress.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame.

--Mason Cooley

[Smartypants]

Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to her to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. “I don’t quite understand you,” she said, as politely as she could.

--Lewis Carroll

[malina]

`I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; `and the moral of that is--Be what you would seem to be--or if you'd like it put more simply--Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.'

`I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very politely, `if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.'

`That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.

Lewis Carroll

[Smartypants]

In the meantime no sense in bickering about pronouns and other parts of blather.

--Samuel Beckett