Center Cannot Hold Elyn Saks Quotes

#1. But her arms were probably the best of her. They were brown and round and good.

J.D. Salinger

#2. In the cool weak light the nightflames all had died, and the silent streets echoed death and desolation. Worlorn's day. Yet it was twilight.

George R R Martin

#3. It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

Oliver Sacks

#4. She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Edith Wharton

#5. If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!

Eve Arden

#6. I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.

Sade Andria Zabala

#7. In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.

Raymond Chandler

#8. All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

Helena Rubinstein