In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant … - Jessica Mitford

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In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

Jessica Mitford

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

Aspirant, Class, Fashion, Human, Media, Rich

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Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

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Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

America, Mad, Mean, People, Running, Sick

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

1932, Ambition, Chicago, Folly, Lexicographer, Regarded

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Change, Embarrass, Heartless, World

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.

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In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

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You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they’ve been insulted. (Mark) Yeah, that’s a twofer there. You get away with it and then they’re twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba)

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I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing. ' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.

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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

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I started classes and it wasnt because I was like, I want to be an actor! - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what its about. Its all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

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