Marceline Desbordes-Valmore famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

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