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message 1: by Will (new)

Will | 1 comments The quote: “Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.” at

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1232...

is misattributed. It’s a paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw’s quote:

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” which you have here:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9913...


message 2: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl Bump.


message 3: by Keith (new)

Keith (kgf0) | 377 comments Merged and tagged as widely misattributed, and commented with a link to research on the attribution.


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