"I thought... their elegance... lies not so much……" — Alexander Theroux
"I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta."
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Alexander Theroux
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21 Quotes by Alexander Theroux
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction,…
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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his…
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Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in…
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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
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Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
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One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those…
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Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences…
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
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A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a…
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More Bodies Quotes
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one of 1,801 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
— Jim Bishop
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies.…
— Brandon Boyd
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