Alison Lurie Quotes

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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

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Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

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Conspicuous consumption in dress still survives in two locations: the private lives of the urban rich and the public lives of the urban poor.

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Clothes which make a woman's life difficult and handicap her in competition with men are always felt to be sexually attractive

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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

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But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it...

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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

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Ina poem, each word has to be right and contribute to the whole; in a story only every sentence. In a novel, only every page.

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Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

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