Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Preface http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/vidal_su95.html <br class="br">1990s, The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories (1995)
Source: The Runaway Queen
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Preface http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/vidal_su95.html <br class="br">1990s, The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories (1995)
“But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.”
Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Meena Kandasamy (1984) Indian poet
On her book When I Hit You in “Meena Kandasamy: ‘If I was going to write my life story, I would condense that marriage to a footnote’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/25/meena-kandasamy-interview-exquisite-cadavers in The Guardian (2019 Nov 25)
“Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.”
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) German general
To Dr. G. M. Gilbert, after receiving the death sentence. Quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" - by G. M. Gilbert - History - 1995
“Each person must stand on his own feet.”
Hermann Hesse book Demian
Source: Demian (1919), p. 147
Context: Certainly you shouldn't go kill somebody or rape a girl, no! But you haven't reached the point where you can understand the actual meaning of "permitted" and "forbidden." You've only sensed part of the truth. You will feel the other part, too, you can depend on it. For instance, for about a year you have had to struggle with a drive that is stronger than any other and which is considered "forbidden." The Greeks and many other peoples, on the other hand, elevated this drive, made it divine and celebrated it in great feasts. What is forbidden, in other words, is not something eternal; it can change. Anyone can sleep with a woman as soon as he's been to a pastor with her and has married her, yet other races do it differently, even nowadays. Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden — forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet.
“How can you not care?"
"Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort
“Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion."
"No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort