The Vicomtesse alias Moira Lister - even though she is on the wrong side of 60, is looking like an exquisite, flawless Gainsborough cameo.
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Jani Allan, "The Vicomtesse from Ostrichland", Sunday Times (1983), republished in Face Value by Jani Allan.Moira Lister
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
Alain de Botton
Resistants were on the right side, Sal? Republic's combatants on the wrong one. (...) One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. (...) The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. (...) We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.
Gianfranco Fini
It is her total professionalism and perennial striving for perfection that elevated Moira from the merely blonde to the maxi-talented.
Jani Allan
We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.
Daniel Ellsberg
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.James Montgomery
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