Quotes of: Maria Keyword

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Siri Hustvedt

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

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The Sound of Music

God gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him.

The Dime That Lasted Forever

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

The Library at Night

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

The Library at Night

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

Harvey Mansfield

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Robert Fitzgerald

The telling of stories creates the real world.

Alberto Manguel

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Jane Hirshfield

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Jacques Lacan

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

Jacques Lacan

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Charles Lyell

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

A History of Reading

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

A History of Reading

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

The Map of Love

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

Robert Fitzgerald

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald