Andrea Levy famous quotes

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.
-- Andrea Levy

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Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.
-- Andrea Levy

#Fashion #Men #Blue

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.