“As we know from the oral tradition, every time the spirit moves it takes a different shape.”
― Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005
― Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005
“I even spent a certain amount of time worrying about the Spiritualist doctrines: If The Other Side was so wonderful, why did the spirits devote most of their messages to warnings? Instead of telling their loved ones to avoid slippery stairs and unsafe cars and starchy foods, they should have been luring them over cliffs and bridges and into lakes, spurring them on to greater feats of intemperance and gluttony, in order to hasten their passage to the brighter shore.”
― Lady Oracle
― Lady Oracle
“vous allez rencontrer des gens qui vont faire un effort surhumain pour apparaître parfaitement blasés.”
― Sixtine - L'Intégrale
― Sixtine - L'Intégrale
“In a fairy tale I would be one of the two stupid sisters who open the forbidden door and are shocked by the murdered wives, not the third, clever one who keeps to the essentials: presence of mind, foresight, the telling of watertight lies. I told lies but they were not watertight. My mind was not disciplined, as Arthur sometimes pointed out.”
― Lady Oracle
― Lady Oracle
“It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”
― The Hill of Dreams
― The Hill of Dreams
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