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We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

— Shana Alexander The Feminine Eye (1970)

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

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Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

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