Binnie Kirshenbaum famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
-- Binnie Kirshenbaum -
A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.
-- Binnie Kirshenbaum -
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.
-- Binnie Kirshenbaum -
I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.
-- Binnie Kirshenbaum
-
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
-
I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
-
I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
-
In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.
-
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
-
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
-
Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
-
Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della
-
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
-
Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.
You may also like:
-
Alec Wilkinson
Writer -
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Author -
Ann Patchett
Author -
Annie Dillard
Author -
Benjamin Cheever
Writer -
Campbell McGrath
Poet -
Chase Twichell
Poet -
Cintra Wilson
Writer -
Louis Bayard
Author -
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Writer -
Marian Keyes
Novelist -
Natalia Ginzburg
Author -
Peter Selgin
Novelist -
Phillip Lopate
Film critic -
Richard Howard
Poet -
Sam Lipsyte
Novelist -
Simon Van Booy
Writer -
Stanley Bing
Novelist -
Susan Cheever
Author -
Lucie Brock-Broido
Author