A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you. |
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you. |
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. |
Art must take reality by surprise. |
Art must take reality by surprise. |
At seventeen, you tend to go in for unhappy love affairs. |
I like men to behave like men - strong and childish |
I like men to behave like men - strong and childish |
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality. |
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. |
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. |
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. |
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter |
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter |
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. |