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• In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

  Karen Abbott

  Mother, Musical, Ambitious

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

  Karen Abbott

  Musical, Chance, Gypsy

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• Her sister [June Havoc] said the musical portrayed who Gypsy [Rose Lee] wanted to be before the burlesque thing happened she wanted to be this beautiful, romantic person with dreams. So Gypsy told the story of her life as she wished she'd lived it: embellishing, softening the edges, eliminating certain things altogether.

  Karen Abbott

  Beautiful, Dream, June

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.

  Karen Abbott

  Fashion, Live Life, Self

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• A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

  Karen Abbott

  Desire, Half, Want

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• She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence.

  Karen Abbott

  Witty, Sex, Self

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.

  Karen Abbott

  Kids, June, Community

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• I wouldn't mind taking a chance at Real Time, I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Real, Thinking, Mind

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• How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Grief, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.132, Penguin

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• The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

  Hannah More

  Long, Lasts, Enough

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.342

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• It’s okay to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection. It’s okay to have too much to drink and call your ex twenty times and then to be mortally embarrassed when you realize your number must have shown up on his caller I.D. It’s okay, because making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, how much you have to give and the distance you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed.

  Veronica Chambers

  Distance, Heart, Love Is

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• Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Memories, Eye, Night

  'Rose Aylmer' (1806)

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• Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Inspirational, Children, Night

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• So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.

  Alfred Austin

  Winter, Snow, Pluck

  Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”

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• A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Color, Roots

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• For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Inspiration, Player, Champion

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

  Louis Aragon

  Evil, Born

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• Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

  Richard Wilbur

  Beautiful, Self, Hands

  Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

  Amy Lowell

  Joy, Opening

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Heart, Ashes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.503

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• All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Autumn, Clothes, Perfection

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.658, Jazzybee Verlag

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• One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

  David Brin

  Reality, Joy, Checks

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.251, Spectra

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• When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Flower, Writing, Yield

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.4

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• Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

  John Milton

  Night, Darkness, Daylight

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1809). “The poetical works of John Milton: from the text of Doctor Newton with the life of the author”, p.325

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• Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Fire, Tunnels

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