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William Manchester has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the…
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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except,…
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…
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They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…
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I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to…
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the…
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective…
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It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the…
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts. I remember the first time he saw me in a…
— Maila Nurmi
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Everything I say about [writing] battles applies equally well in the boudoir.
— Chris Humphreys
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a…
— Siri Hustvedt
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Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased…
— Honore de Balzac
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Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record…
— Elliott Erwitt
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A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.
— John Burnham Schwartz
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It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a…
— Vivienne Westwood
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It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in…
— Laurie Graham
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As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
— William Manchester
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It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
— Kathleen Winsor
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