Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels
"If on a winter's night a traveller". Chapter 7. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver (1981).
“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
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How to Become Extinct (1941)
“Leftist memes are 25 pages long and have footnotes.”
Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director
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“I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.”
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Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Also found http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22love+is+the+answer%22#search_anchor in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.”
Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness
Source: Too Much Happiness
“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.”
Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory
Variant: Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
Source: My Name Is Memory