Quotations About / On: PERFECT

  • 41.
    Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
    (Marguerite Duras (b. 1914), French author, filmmaker. "Men," Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).)
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  • 42.
    Father told me if I could get my fingers
    to ballet the typewriter keys
    to Nureyev the steno pad
    everything would be perfect.
    (Lynne Savitt, U.S. poet. "Self Worth and the Typist," lines 1-4 (1979). Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) was a great Russian ballet dancer who defected to the United States in 1961.)
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  • 43.
    The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
    (E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. "The Raison d'tre of Criticism in the Arts," pt. II (1947), in Two Cheers for Democracy (1951). Originally from an address on music at Harvard University.)
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  • 44.
    There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
    (Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. "A Night Among the Pines," Travels With a Donkey (1879).)
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  • 45.
    [In government] the problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
    (James Madison (1751-1836), U.S. president. "Majority Governments" (1833). The Mind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison, p. 525, ed. Marvin Meyers, Indianapolis (1973).)
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  • 46.
    It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.
    (William Hurlbut (1883-?), U.S. screenwriter, and James Balderston. James Whale. Mary W. Shelley (Elsa Lanchester), Bride of Frankenstein, in the prologue scene (1935). Suggested by the original story written in 1816 by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and adapted by William Hurlbut, James Balderston.)
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  • 47.
    Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
    With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!
    (Robert Bridges (1844-1930), British poet, critic. On a Dead Child (l. 1-2). . . New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 48.
    Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
    (Robert Musil (1880-1942), Austrian author. Ulrich to Clarisse, in The Man Without Qualities, book I, ch. 84, Gesammelte Werke in Neun Banden [Collected Works in Nine Volumes], ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Riechel, Rowohlt (1978).)
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  • 49.
    The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. letter to Eliza P. Gurney, Sep. 4, 1864. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, p. 535, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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  • 50.
    Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
    (Thomas Hobbes (1579-1688), British philosopher. De Cive, dedication (1642).)
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