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Top 30 Shana Alexander Quotes (2025 Update)

Shana Alexander Quote: “The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.”

1. “The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “The mark of a true crush Is that you fall in love first And grope for reasons afterward.”

2. “The mark of a true crush Is that you fall in love first And grope for reasons afterward.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.”

3. “Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.”

4. “Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.”

5. “Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.”

6. “Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”

7. “This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.”

8. “Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm’s length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don’t take a Beatle to lunch. Don’t wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.”

9. “As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm’s length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don’t take a Beatle to lunch. Don’t wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.”

— Shana Alexander

Shana Alexander Quote: “I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.”

10. “I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.”

11. “Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.”

12. “At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.”

13. “I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate...”

14. “Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate...”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.”

15. “Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.”

16. “In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.”

17. “Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”

18. “When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?”

19. “How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.”

20. “Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Ballet’s image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.”

21. “Ballet’s image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.”

22. “The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.”

23. “Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Rome’s riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.”

24. “Rome’s riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child’s pony ride.”

25. “A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child’s pony ride.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.”

26. “Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.”

27. “Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.”

28. “The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.”

29. “The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Good drama should sandpaper the mind.”

30. “Good drama should sandpaper the mind.”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground...”

31. “Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground...”

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Shana Alexander Quote: “What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.”

32. “What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.”

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