"I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror."

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Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.35, New York Review of Books

Elaine Dundy

#Writing Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.”
“Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.”
“Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.”

Source : Gilbert Parker (2013). “The Money Master”, p.208, Lulu Press, Inc
“Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.”
“Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.”

Source : klassiknet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.
“The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.”
“I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.”

Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.
“Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.”

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