The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : Of Fish and Fire
Arafel's Saga (1983)
“A frightening thing, which is perhaps true: "old men want to survive."”
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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
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Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
“I wanted my wild things to be frightening.”
Maurice Sendak
(1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
As quoted in The Art of Maurice Sendak by Selma G. Lanes (1980)
Context: I wanted my wild things to be frightening. But why? It was probably at this point that I remembered how I detested my Brooklyn relatives as a small child. They came almost every Sunday, and there was my week-long anxiety about their coming the next Sunday... They'd lean way over with their bad teeth and hairy noses, and say something threatening like "You're so cute I could eat you up." And I knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would.
Lisa Taddeo
(1980) American writer and journalist
Source: On women being told to control their own impulses in “Lisa Taddeo on her bestseller Three Women: 'I thought I was writing a quiet little book'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/06/lisa-taddeo-interview-three-women in The Guardian (2019 Dec 6)
“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.”
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
