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RADNER, Gilda
GILDA RADNER, American comedian & actor – Author Quotes
KERR, Jean
CitationContextSource IDCitation “A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and then have the patient sit up on the table.” ~Jean Kerr, American author & playwright Mary, Mary (1960) Script, Act I; New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1965 revised ed., p. 33 Context Extended excerpt [Play dialogue - character ‘Oscar’ to ‘Bob’ & ‘Mary’]: “OSCAR. (Crosses U.R.C., eyeing them both.) Please don’t be embarrassed on my account. I’m delighted. I hate a friendly divorce. A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and
YOURCENAR, Marguerite
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A man who reads, reflects, or plans belongs to a species rather than to his sex; in his best moments he rises even above the human.” ~Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) trans. Grace Frick, New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1955, p. 165; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Fictional autobiography of the Roman Emperor Hadrian]: “I should have desired more: to see the human creature unadorned, alone with herself as she indeed must have been at least sometimes, in illness or after the death of a first-born child, or when a wrinkle began to show in her mirror. A
ZINSSER, William K.
Learn more about William Zinsser | Here are a few good places to start – William Zinsser – Official website includes a biography, photo gallery, book passages, links to articles, and music page: www.williamzinsserwriter.com/william-zinsser-music.html ‘On Memoir, Truth and ‘Writing Well’’ (13 April 2006) NPR “All Things Considered” conversation with Michelle Norris; link includes audio file, transcript & excerpt from Zinsser’s book How to Write a Memoir: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5340618 ‘The Complete Zinsser on Friday’| The American Scholar collection of Zinsser essays: https://theamericanscholar.org/the-complete-zinsser-on-friday/#.V_XPL5MrKAY ‘Lives: William K. Zinsser ‘44’’ (3 February 2016) Princeton Alumni Weekly tribute by Sanda Sobieraj Westfall: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/lives-william-k-zinsser-%E2%80%9944 ‘My Stardust Memories’ (2 August 2010) The American Scholar – What’s it like to
GILBERT, Elizabeth
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert, American author Committed: A Love Story (2010) London: Bloomsbury, 2010, p. 101 Context Extended excerpt [From chapter four – ‘Marriage and Infatuation’]: “The problem with infatuation, of course, is that it’s a mirage, a trick of the eye – indeed, a trick of the endocrine system. Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job. When you become infatuated with somebody, you’re not
GOODMAN, Paul
CitationContextSource IDCitation “It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft that man becomes something.” ~Paul Goodman, American author & social critic The Community of Scholars (1962) New York, NY: Random House, p. 175 Context Extended excerpt [Nonfiction]: “The principle of the studium generale is that civilization has been a continual gift of the creator spirit; it consists of inventions, discoveries, insights, art works, highly theorized institutions, and methods of workmanship. All of this has vastly accumulated over the ages and become very unwieldy, yet, in the spirit, it is always appropriable. As Socrates would have said, it’s meaning can be recalled. The advantage of recalling it
FISHER, Dorothy Canfield
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER – Author Quotes
RAND, Ayn
AYN RAND – Russian-American author, philosopher & screenwriter – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE