"[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible."

-- Nina Berberova

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #Water Quotes

“True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.”
“For me, each one of our SNSD members is like my body. If one gets hurt, it hurts me & pains me even more.”
“I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.”
“Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!”
“I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.”

Source : Betye Saar, James Christen Steward, University of Michigan. Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art (2005). “Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment”, University of California Press
“I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.”
“Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.”
“It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.”

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