“I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from Westmark
“-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from Westmark
“Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from Westmark
“Find what you want. I will find you.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from Westmark
“...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from Westmark
“How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from Westmark
Lloyd Alexander
Born place: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
Born date January 30, 1924
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“Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?”
― Jean Toomer, quote from Cane
“Gazda şi musafirul goliră cîte un pahar, apoi încă unul. Musafirul devenea tot mai simpatic şi, la rîndul său, dădu repetate dovezi de sinceritate şi exuberanţă, participînd viu la mulţumirea sufletească a domnului Goliadkin şi bucurîndu-se de bucuria lui, văzînd în el pe adevăratul şi singurul său binefăcător. Luînd un condei şi o foaie de hîrtie, îl rugă pe domnul Goliadkin să nu se uite la ceea ce scrie şi, după ce isprăvi, îi întinse gazdei sale hîrtia. Era un catren sentimental, scris, de altfel, într-un stil emfatic, caligrafiat admirabil, compus, probabil, chiar de simpaticul musafir. Stihurile sunau astfel:
Chiar dacă tu mă vei uita,
Eu nu te voi uita pe tine;
Nicicînd, orice s-ar întîmpla,
Nu mă uita nici tu pe mine!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Double
“Although the natural rights inherent in our( Constitutional) regime are adequate to the solution of this ( minority) problem...the equal protection of the law did not protect a man from contempt and hatred as a Jew, an Italian or a Black"..." 'Openness' was designed to provide a respectable place for those groups or minorities--to wrest respect from those who were disposed to give it--This breaks the delicate balance between majority and minority in Constitutional thought. In such a perspective where there is no common good, minorities are no longer problematic and the protection of them emerges as THE central function of government.”
― Allan Bloom, quote from The Closing of the American Mind
“Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.”
― Amy Bloom, quote from Away
“I have to get used to it—to her, but she's put a light in him so I think I'm going to be a fan."
"You're a stand-up gal, Swede."
"If she screws him up, I'll peel the skin off her ass with a dull razor blade.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
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