Top 31 David Leavitt Quotes
#1. A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having "such a representative life". And it's true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.
Christopher Bram
#2. Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_
David Leavitt
#3. It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
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#5. I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat
George Bernard Shaw
#6. Sex, my darling, is often the least important part of a passion. You'll learn that when you get older. - Maria Luisa (Tushi) Strauss
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#7. That was mean."
"Well he did accuse me of being a bitch. Any professional is going to try their best to meet their employer's expectations.
Jim Bernheimer
#8. You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell.
David Leavitt
#9. Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.
David Leavitt
#10. Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.
David Leavitt
#11. Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.
David Leavitt
#12. You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.
David Leavitt
#13. Nobody can beat the Marvellous one!
Marc Mero
#14. I watched that film the other night and it embarrassed me. So dated, so coy, so evasively homosexual only a fellow homosexual might recognize the subtext.
David Leavitt
#15. When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.
Elaine Stritch
#16. Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you.
David Leavitt
#17. When I'm in a relationship, I give my heart and soul to it and do it 100 percent.
Blake Lively
#19. In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
David Leavitt
#20. Now that I'm here, all I wanna do is get better. I wanna be the best I can be.
Jc Caylen
#21. The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
David Leavitt
#22. It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
David Leavitt
#24. Yet all of these accumulated contributions paled before a larger one: he demonstrated how one could assert one's will on the world at the very time when everything seemed to be growing beyond control and beyond comprehension.
Neal Gabler
#25. Christmas was over. It had passed, as usual, in a fever of generosities, and left an aftertaste of swindle in its wake. "Anticippointment" Pamela said ... and there was in that invented word all the regret and resignation that forty-seven years of Christmases had built up in her.
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#26. They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.
David Leavitt
#27. 'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull.
David Leavitt
#28. Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal ...
Hans Reichenbach
#29. I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
David Leavitt
#31. When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
David Leavitt
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