Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 38
“Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”
Katie, Chapter 29, p. 236
Variant: Maybe I’d like to
be defined by what I am.
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)
“What unseen pen etched eternal things
on the hearts of human kind
but never let them in our minds?”
My Exit, Unfair.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
As quoted in the New York Times Magazine (11 September 1994).
The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Source: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
de:Louis de Marsalle, in Uber Kirchners Graphik, Genius 3, no. 2 (1921), p. 258; as quoted in 'The Revival of Printmaking in Germany', I. K. Rigby; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 53
1920's
5 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met.
Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 16
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)
