"No one will ever make necessity not happen."

-- Anne Carson

“Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.”
“In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others children for fear of what they'd hear, one knew that they were speaking-or not speaking, keeping their unhappy silence-on behalf of stricken motherhood everywhere in the country.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt
“Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.”
“Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.”
“In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!”
“This is New York. You gotta work from upstairs to downstairs! You gotta work both ends of the street to have a career. Because it's not just fabricating an artwork. Your works have to go out into the world; they have to go to market. This art on the hoof has to be moved; it's got to go to the slaughterhouse at some point. Keep those dogies rollin'!”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”
“There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”

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