Annegret

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language of a people who have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.”
― Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown