G Estates General Quotes

#1. Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.

Lydia Davis

#2. I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

Jane Austen

#3. She knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her - was like walking in the sunshine;

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#5. How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.

Kevin Zraly

#6. Education can, and should be, dangerous.

Howard Zinn

#7. But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but a sort of mysterious communication, which brought them every moment nearer, and stirred in both a sense of joyful terror before the unknown into which they were entering.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.

Peter Coyote

#9. Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.

Aaron Hill