The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
Ned Rorem
The beautiful are shyer than ...
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Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
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Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.
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Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
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Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
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