"The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Extreme Magic: Eight Stories and a Novella”, p.81, Open Road Media

Hortense Calisher

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.”
“Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.”
“Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.”

Source : Love Story ch. 13 (1970). In the motion picture this line was changed to "Love means never having to say you're sorry" and become famous in this form.
“We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.”
“You better do your job and not lean on me to do it for you.”
“I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.”
“I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed”
“I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.”

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