Nancy Milford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him youâ€™re as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebodyâ€™s elseâ€™s sweet flesh.
-- Nancy Milford

#Cute #Sweet #Eye
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading â€œWhat We Seeâ€. Maybe that's really the point of writing. That if you take the time to look, to really observe, then you see what is happening, and, with the clarity of that vision, you can act to save neighborhoods.
-- Nancy Milford

#Reading #Writing #Vision
The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.
-- Nancy Milford

#Fashion #Flower #Hats
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
-- Nancy Milford

#Horse #Peculiar #Endeavor
Francis Scott Fitzgerald really read culture pretty damn clearly. It was he who understood that artistic achievement, really imaginative work, goes where the money is. Where people can afford to buy books and paintings. He linked money - not always in a positive way - to being able to encourage culture.
-- Nancy Milford

#Book #People #Achievement

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life
My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.
It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.
Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.

Nancy Milford famous quotes

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