Huguette Clark Quotes

#1. Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.

Bill Dedman

#2. Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

Bill Dedman

#3. After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.

Bill Dedman

#4. The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

Bill Dedman

#5. People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

Stephen Keshi

#6. Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

Shelly Crane

#7. The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Irvin D. Yalom

#8. Eccentricity is not a psychiatric disorder.

Bill Dedman

#9. I'd programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle.

Ernest Cline

#10. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Garth Stein

#11. What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it ... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

Auguste Rodin

#12. Huguette had a fairy-tale checkbook, one that was refilled whenever it ran out of magic beans.

Bill Dedman

#13. I can't and won't write without hope.
I'd rather never write again.

Melina Marchetta

#14. Huguette was a formidable personality who lived life as she wanted, always on her own terms.

In her own way, she found what life may be, a life of integrity.

Bill Dedman