I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. (Isadora Duncan)

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

Isadora Duncan

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