"I have a social life. But I don't discuss it."

-- Ed Koch

“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.”
“What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.”

Source : "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.
“Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.112, New York Review of Books
“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”
“Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.”
“Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.”
“You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”
“It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.”

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