Lorene Cary Quotes

#1. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

Philip Pullman

#2. So true. You have to have the right shoes for the occasion.

Suzanne Macpherson

#3. I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!

Louisa May Alcott

#4. It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

H.L. Mencken

#5. The thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

Freya Stark

#6. Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.

Mordecai Richler

#7. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

Lorene Cary

#8. If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months.

Colin Farrell

#9. But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.

Lorene Cary

#10. Bear good fortune modestly.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#11. Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

Richard Bach

#12. Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies.

John Ford

#13. When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

Lorene Cary

#14. It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. How come you got to start making the bed the minute your feet hit the floor? You need to lighten up, girl. Live a little!' Then she'd laugh, delighted with herself and at my inability to be angry with her.

Lorene Cary

#16. I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

Terry Southern

#17. Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

Lorene Cary