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“No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead”

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Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall, born on September 16, 1924, was an iconic American film actress. Renowned for her charm and acting prowess, she rose to fame with her role in 'To Have and Have Not' and other classic films. more

“My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb”

“Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.”

Law Fall Sex Common Feminism Feminist Gravity Coercion Prevailing Common Law

Author:Judith Sargent Murray

“[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.”

Mean Feminism Remains Feminist Inferiors Intercourse

Author:Crystal Eastman

“The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.”

Men Wells Made Christian Feminism Logic Western Males Feminist Greek Arena Exclusion

Author:Catharine MacKinnon

“Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.”

Men Two War Might Culture Fighting Evil Natural Sleep Effects Stupid Stronger Favors Malicious Wintertime Against War

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.”

Way Years Two War Ends Facts Culture Fighting Heaven Hell Broken Glory Europe Shame Connected Mysterious Fifty Heaven And Hell No War Mysterious Ways

Author:Milan Kundera

“A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.”

People Has Beens Fighting Instruments Torture Museums Could Have Been Cannons

Author:Victor Hugo

“Was it for this the clay grew tall?”

Fighting Grew Tall Clay Futility Sunbeams

Author:Wilfred Owen

“But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.”

People Way Hair Members Red Intelligent Mad Memorable Red Hair

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”

Ifs Thinking Interesting Nice Excited Memorable

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

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