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14 Alison Lurie Quotes & Sayings
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14 Alison Lurie Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 3 September 1926 |
Novelist
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Academic
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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
Alison Lurie
Rule
Think
Life
Second
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As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myself said unto me, Look to thyself, Take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee.
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Walked
Myself
Thyself
Care
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As we leave the tribal culture of childhood behind, we lose contact with instinctive joy in self-expression: with the creative imagination, spontaneous emotion, and the ability to see the world as full of wonders.
Alison Lurie
Childhood
Joy
World
Wonders
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Sticks and stones may break my bones; But names will never hurt me When I die, then you'll cry for the names you called me.
Alison Lurie
Sticks
Stones
Names
Cry
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We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.
Alison Lurie
We
Say
Morning
Decide
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In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
Alison Lurie
Sense
Art
Imagination
Truth
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
Lie
Langauge
Dress
Truth
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
Alison Lurie
Fashion
Speech
Privileges
Pleasures
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...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.
Alison Lurie
Write
Character
Hate
Fear
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Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
Alison Lurie
Real
Litrature
Travel
Surprise
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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
Alison Lurie
Wars
Victory
Defeat
Men
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With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.
Alison Lurie
Pencil
Paper
Revise
World
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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.
Alison Lurie
Survive
Life
Artist
Report
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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.
Alison Lurie
Odor
Explosives
Smoke
War
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Alison Lurie Quotes & Sayings