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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Isadora Duncan

Marriage
2

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Isadora Duncan

Love
3

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

Isadora Duncan

Theatre
4

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Isadora Duncan

Jazz
5

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Isadora Duncan

Life and Living
6

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Isadora Duncan

Madness
7

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isadora Duncan

Children
8

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Isadora Duncan

Marriage
9

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Isadora Duncan

Children
10

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Isadora Duncan

Writers and Writing
11

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Isadora Duncan

Dance and Dancing
12

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Isadora Duncan

Dance and Dancing
13

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Isadora Duncan

Virtue
14

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Isadora Duncan

Law and Lawyers

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.