Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character– Philip Larkin is Exhibit A–nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.
Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
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Vita Sackvillewest
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue. Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each lettter. Your name, which I played with so carelessly, so easily, has somehow become...
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Coco J. Ginger
When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight,...
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Maya Angelou
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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More Quotes By William Giraldi
We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human – what Lesser means by “grandeur and intimacy” – and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid...
Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology: covenant, sacred, sacrifice. And mind always that Adam wasn’t a schlep fruitily duped by Eve. He turned his back on God because he...
I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.
For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.
Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character– Philip Larkin is Exhibit A–nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.
