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Quote by Isadora Duncan
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. – Isadora Duncan

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Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite. – Isadora Duncan

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. – Isadora Duncan

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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. – Henry Fielding

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Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite. – Isadora Duncan

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We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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