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What sort of sap doesnt know by now that picture-perfect beauty is

What sort of sap doesnt know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? – Julie Burchill

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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. – Julie Burchill

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The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket – they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses. – Julie Burchill

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No one knows men as such, any more than anyone knows women, and if they do generalise theyre probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one man, yes, or even lots of individual men. – Julie Burchill

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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. – Anouk Aimee

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To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler

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I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. Thats because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. – Tobey Maguire

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We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. – Mary Oliver

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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. – George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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