"We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal."

-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Betrayal Quotes #Fall Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.”
“It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
“In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.”
“The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .”
“To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.”

Source : Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century”, p.4, PublicAffairs
“It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.”
“I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”

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