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“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.”
Source : Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.10, Knopf
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“I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.”
Source : Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
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“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
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“Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.”
Source : Donna Jo Napoli (1995). “The Magic Circle”, p.8, Penguin
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“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.”
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“I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.”
Source : Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”
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“When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.”
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“He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.”
Source : Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House
