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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?

— Jean Kerr The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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