Quote by Thomas Mann
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I h

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann

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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I dont know where I would be without it. – Thomas Mann

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For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. – Thomas Mann

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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot. – Elizabeth Edwards

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I know Im talented, but I wasnt put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but its not where it begins and ends. – Amy Winehouse

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Because I didnt have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them – but it was not my family. Ive always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters. – Gus Van Sant

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We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. – Marquise de Sévigné

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