"[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart."

-- Peggy Guggenheim

#Summer Quotes #Heart Quotes #Venice Quotes

“In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.”
“To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache...”
“Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.”
“I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.”
“Well done to the lady lineswoman.”
“It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
“Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.”
“Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.”

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