Shana Alexander Quotes

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• The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
• The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
• Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for…
• Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
• When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
• This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for…
• Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers…
• Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
• A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway…
• The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
• The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for…
• The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
• Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
• I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
• Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices
• What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It…
• The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
• Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .
• Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
• trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

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