The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.