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  • #1
    Vera Nazarian
    “If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
    Vera Nazarian

  • #2
    Emily Giffin
    “Vatican Palace…because in Venturi’s words, ‘Less is”
    Emily Giffin, Something Blue

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  • #4
    Ann Brashares
    “I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”
    Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

  • #5
    Gregory Maguire
    “There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #6
    Gregory Maguire
    “But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #8
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #10
    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    Laurence J. Peter

  • #11
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #12
    Lydia Davis
    “There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.”
    Lydia Davis

  • #13
    Lydia Davis
    “I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”
    Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

  • #14
    Lydia Davis
    “I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.”
    Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

  • #15
    Lydia Davis
    “So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.”
    Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

  • #16
    Lydia Davis
    “She was thinking how it was the unfinished business. This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over. Everything was still going on. The business not only not finished but maybe not done well enough.”
    Lydia Davis, Break It Down

  • #17
    Lydia Davis
    “At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.”
    Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

  • #18
    Lydia Davis
    “We know we are very special,” Davis writes in “Special”: “Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?” (from James Wood's review of the FSG "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis")”
    Lydia Davis

  • #19
    Lydia Davis
    “No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.”
    Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

  • #20
    Lydia Davis
    “The Outing

    An outburst of anger near the road, a refusal to speak on the path, a silence in the pine woods, a silence across the old railroad bridge, an attempt to be friendly in the water, a refusal to end the argument on the flat stones, a cry of anger on the steep bank of dirt, a weeping among the bushes.”
    Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

  • #21
    Lydia Davis
    “Idea For A Short Documentary Film

    Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.”
    Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

  • #22
    Lydia Davis
    “Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean.”
    Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't

  • #23
    Lydia Davis
    “She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses but also his.”
    Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

  • #24
    Lydia Davis
    “This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.”
    Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

  • #25
    Lydia Davis
    “But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.”
    Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory

  • #26
    Lydia Davis
    “His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.”
    Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

  • #27
    Lydia Davis
    “Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:

    that Scotland has so few trees.”
    Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

  • #28
    Lydia Davis
    “I looked at whale jawbones in the museum this morning. Then I did some shopping. Whenever I go into the drugstore it seems that many people are buying condoms and motion sickness medicine.”
    Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance
    tags: sex, whales

  • #29
    Lydia Davis
    “because she couldn’t write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn”
    Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

  • #30
    Lydia Davis
    “A woman has written yet another story that is not interesting, though it has a hurricane in it, and a hurricane usually promises to be interesting.”
    Lydia Davis



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