Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 2, 1907 Death: August 16, 1998
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity..
Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But on….
To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live..
I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook..
Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existenc….
It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They ….
If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully..
I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean..
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own..
There is no life that does not contribute to history..