Shana Alexander Quotes

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

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Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

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What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

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Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.

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Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

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