![I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured the book like one of her stripteases: revealing a peek of shoulder, then a glimpse of knee, pulling back a bit before you go a bit further, until all is revealed at the end.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-thought-both-she-gypsy-rose-lee-and-her-story-would-be-ill-served-by-a-conven.jpg)
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When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
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book writing companion
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rose elements flight
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. Camille Paglia
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rosebuds silk
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rose waiting missing
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rose touching tears
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
rose black one-day
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The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose. Charles Francis Richter
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That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy. Alanis Morissette
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It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live. Bryan Fuller
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You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of. L. Ron Hubbard
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