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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. – 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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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. – Isadora Duncan

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Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. – Studs Terkel

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What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz. – Samuel L. Jackson

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