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"Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity?"
"Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces."

— Penelope Gilliatt A State of Change (1967)

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