Some Quotes​

 

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.  

Michel de Montaigne

 

The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Elizabeth Bishop

 

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Zora Neale Hurston

 

When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?

Camille  Pissarro

 

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

The Way We Live Now

I have great admiration for Elena Ferrante, for her writing and for her stance against “self-promotion obsessively imposed by the media.” (From the interview in the Paris Review.) By the culture, I would say. A culture more and more geared to using every possible avenue to sell something.