“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
"Madonna" (1992)
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993)
As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (1992)
Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
“Why do I write today? The beauty of
the terrible faces
of our nonentities
stirs me to it”
"Apology"
Al Que Quiere! (1917)
Context: Why do I write today? The beauty of
the terrible faces
of our nonentities
stirs me to it: colored women
day workers—
old and experienced—
returning home at dusk,
in cast off clothing
faces like
old Florentine oak.
“I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.”
On personality, p. 118
Photoplay: "Wedded and Parted" (December 1922)
“A terrible thing has happened to me: I believe I am finding God.”
Quote of Gleizes, 1918; as cited by Daniel Robbins, in Albert Gleizes 1881 – 1953, A Retrospective Exhibition, published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1964 - in collaboration with Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris & Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
remark to his wife Juliette Roche during the winter of 1918 at the Gleizes' rented house in Pelham, New York
1910s
