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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."

"People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it."

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."

"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them."

"The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?"
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