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color

is killed by speed: The gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Speed kills color. . . the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. (Paul Morand)

is so commonplace because love has become something so boring that it takes several people to get done with it.

For most people, love has become something so boring that it takes several people to get done with it.

is a civilization that entered the bourgeois salons by tea; by coffee, it penetrates the brain.

By tea, the East enters the bourgeois salons, by coffee, it penetrates the brain.

Life is a disease of which everybody dies.

 has become so boring for most people that it takes several people to get done with it.

is a place whose supreme beauty excuses it and makes its vulgarity forgettable.

New York's supreme beauty, its truly unique quality [which] gives it nobility, excuses it, makes its vulgarity lorgettable . . .

Quotations are the crutches of disabled writers.