Francine du Plessix Gray Quotes

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The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shared by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of missionaries who carried it there: a will to do good for unfortunates regardless of what the unfortunates thought about it.

Francine du Plessix Gray

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

Francine du Plessix Gray

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

Francine du Plessix Gray

Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

Francine du Plessix Gray

The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

Francine du Plessix Gray

Francine du Plessix Gray

Francine du Plessix Gray

Born: September 25, 1930

Died: January 13, 2019 (aged 88)

Bio: Francine du Plessix Gray was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic.

Known for:

Them: A Memoir of Parents (2005)
The Queen's Lover: A Novel (2012)
Lovers and Tyrants (1976)
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life (1998)
Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman (2008)

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