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“People use women's backs as bridges every day without ever thinking twice.”

Book:Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last

“Artists, when they are working, should have little need for heels.”

Book:Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last

“When Paris was changing, when Spain was in civil war, when Los Angeles was on fire, when drugs decimated her city - what did people do? They made art about it.”

Book:Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last

“The history of art - like culture in general - is really just a big long conversation among creators.”

Book:Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last

“But regret with inaction is just a swallowed apology.”

Book:Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last

“She’d allowed herself to become distracted from the true American dream — accumulating money — by its phantom cousin, accumulating fame.”

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Book:Olga Dies Dreaming

Source: Olga Dies Dreaming

“So willing — eager, almost — to shed our rich culture for the cheap thrill of being seen as American. Thinking that if one day they accumulated enough stuff, if they learned to act the right way, they could be seen as the same. And because of course, white America will never see them as equal, they die owning lots of things, but having lost themselves.”

Book:Olga Dies Dreaming

Source: Olga Dies Dreaming

“Psssh. This is where you females get in your own way. If a rich woman came up o me today and said, 'Marcus, you handsome devil, let me take you away from all this. A man as fine and smart and wonderful and good in bed as you shouldn't have to work.' Well, I wouldn't say, 'But how will I prove myself as a man if I don't work?' I would say, 'Sign me up! Just let me keep doing my radio show, please.”

Book:Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last

“The problem with being alive, I can tell you now, is that it happens so fast, we don't have the time to make sense of it in the same way that you can once you're dead.”

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Book:Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last