"You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night."

-- James Thurber

#Home Quotes #Night Quotes #Gertrude Quotes

“As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing...”
“Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight from a Danish summer's night. When covered by dew, silver can look like magical mist.”
“There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.”
“Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.”
“My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancerâ€•”

Source : Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra
“These days I can't tell what I really feel.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2007). “Darling: New & Selected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
“Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand her better. She has a violent nostalgia, almost an infantile nostalgia, to be understood by the men surrounding her. I like her relentless fight for independence, her rebellion against the mediocre, and her quest for the sublime, even if she burns her wigs in the process. I like that Flaubert never judges her morally for her self-destructiveness, for her desperate attempt to satisfy her wildest desires and appetites.”
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

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