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[Gene] Kelly wanted the title song to reflect “my moment of greatest exhilaration” and to have a child-like playfulness. “I thought of the fun children have slashing about in rain puddles and decided to become a kid myself during the number”. He had taught so many kids to dance, he had an idea of their lack of self-consciousness and joy. 

Singin’ in the Rain (1952), dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen

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MAYA HAWKE - photographed for Flaunt Magazine.

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Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017)

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Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories

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“Memory, I whisper, stay awake.”

— Ilya Kaminsky, from ‘A Toast’, Dancing in Odessa

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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn't.

— Khaled Hosseini

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I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

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You are so good. So good, you're always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you're gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don't it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.

— Silas House

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“She let the thought drain away. And she was peacefully nothing. She hardly existed. It was good that way, very good indeed. Plunges into the nothing.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Departure of the Train”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

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“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where do I put it down?”

— Anne Carson, from Glass and God

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“These violent delights have violent ends.”

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet: Act II, Scene VI

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— The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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“If you’re tired of kissing me, I’d better go.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Beautiful and Damned