Fight your way through that, okay?
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Fight your way through that, okay?
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Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We’ve always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. Thats what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral; or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a different base, it’s unintentional.
Unintentional beauty, beauty by mistake.
the unbearable lightness of being
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“It’s true! We really didn’t know you were going to be a girl. And when the doctor was pulling you out, you were so long…’It’s a boy, it’s a boy! Oh! No! It’s a girl?’ he said, so, we picked your name, in a hospital room. Between jello and machine beeps.”
“Well, then the whole time before that…what color was my nursery if you didn’t know what to expect?”
“Mint green. Maybe that’s why it’s one of your favorites. You never have been a big fan of pink.”
-my mother and I
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