"This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self."

-- Lionel Trilling

#Fashion Quotes #Self Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout.”

Source : 25 of Joan Rivers' best jokes, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2014.
“Amir Khan will come back and he will win back the world title because I know the guy personally, and I know what he's made off. There's no quit in this guy.”
“I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.”

Source : "Chronicle" by Nadine Brozan, www.nytimes.com. October 1, 1994.
“Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.”
“No one wants advice - only corroboration.”
“I like a gooey cookie.”
“Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind; you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?”
“When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.”

You may also like:

Adam Kirsch
Poet
Alfred Kazin
Writer
Diana Trilling
Literary critic
Harold Bloom
Literary critic
Irving Howe
Literary critic
Jacques Barzun
Historian
Leon Wieseltier
Writer
Mark Van Doren
Poet
Matthew Arnold
Poet