Practicalities Marguerite Quotes

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place. ~ Marguerite Gardiner

The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist. There's never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one. ~ Marguerite Duras

I'll say this one more time. I will be gentle. I will be slow. But you don't have the reins. ~ Joey W. Hill

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential. ~ Marguerite Duras

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful. ~ Marguerite Moreau

Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always another. If we do what we are able a door always opens to something else. ~ Marguerite De Angeli

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. ~ Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

How smug I was, telling Theo how hard we tried to do right by the other selves we visit. I'm so full of it. I took more than this Marguerite's only night with the man she loved; I took away her choices. ~ Claudia Gray

It made her chest hurt, how much she felt in this moment. She knew she should not say anything impetuously. But under the light of the stained glass window, the flickering candlelight of their shared memories, it felt like simple unexamined honesty. No matter what the darkness brought back to her tomorrow.
I'm in love with you. ~ Joey W. Hill

You have the survival instincts of a suicidal squirrel ~ Marguerite Labbe

Every new increase in the vast imperial organism seemed to me an unsound growth, like a cancer or dropsical edema which would eventually cause our death. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

With Marguerite, he wanted only time - more and more time - and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again. ~ Mitch Albom

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world. ~ Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

He says, You only came because I'm rich. I say that's how I desire him, with his money, that when I first saw him he was already in his car, in his money, so I can't say what I'd have done if he'd been different. ~ Marguerite Duras

The future: A consolation for those who have no other. ~ Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I kissed you," Finlay said roughly. "for the very simple reason that you are irresistible."
"I think that is what is known as serendipity," Isabella replied, "for it's the very same reason I kissed you back."
"Serendipity," Finlay said, sliding his arm around her waist. "I've always wondered what it tasted like."
"Strawberries, and lavender, and vintage wine, I believe is how you described it."
"No," he said decidedly. "It tastes of nothing other than essence of you. The most intoxicating and delicious taste imaginable. ~ Marguerite Kaye

Everything goes in slow motion around you, Marguerite. You steal time when people look at you. ~ Joey W. Hill

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

There are stages in bread-making quite similar to the stages of writing. You begin with something shapeless, which sticks to your fingers, a kind of paste. Gradually that paste becomes more and more firm. Then there comes a point when it turns rubbery. Finally, you sense that the yeast has begun to do its work: the dough is alive. Then all you have to do is let it rest. But in the case of a book the work may take ten years. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance. ~ Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I can't tell you that. But not because I'm not willing to tell you." He looked down at the guns. A Desert Eagle and a Sig Sauer nine millimeter, and he'd killed with both of them. "When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it. ~ Joey W. Hill

It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste. ~ Marguerite Duras

I was full of doubts, of course, not a particularly bad way to be, but I didn't know that. Doubting so much made me suffer, but I could have saved myself the anxiety and simply doubted, without any problem. I was unaware that to doubt is to write. Marguerite Duras would say so in 1995, toward the end of her days: I can say what I like, but I shall never know why people write and how it is people don't write. In life, there comes a time, and I think it is total, that we cannot escape, where we doubt everything: that doubt is writing. ~ Enrique Vila-Matas

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater. ~ Marguerite Moreau

That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to a love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons for its existence, its starting point, and its source. My own failure to discover these things has sometimes inclined me toward magical explanations, and has led me to seek in the frenzies of the occult for what common sense has not taught me. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

It's not about the color of our skins, or our gender, or who we fall in love with. It's about how we make each other feel, about ourselves, about life. ~ Marguerite Labbe

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Women must find their own answer. That's the important thing. I'm no longer interested in books about women written by men. Even if I could believe in their objectivity, I just can't find their opinions relevant. Now I will only believe what a woman has to say about women, because even if it's not entirely true, it's her struggle and she's on the way to the answer.
Many of you seek masculine approval. Even though you have inside you your way of talking and writing, you have mountains of it inside you, and even though it is enough to begin expressing yourselves so long as it is with your vocabulary, your abstractions, and your own conceptualization, I think you are still afraid of the master: men. Of their judgment. As long as you have this fear, you will not progress. I think the future belongs to women. Men have been completely dethroned. Their rhetoric is stale, used up. We must move on the rhetoric of women, one that is anchored in the organism, in the body. ~ Marguerite Duras

You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die. ~ Marguerite Duras

What's success? Having lots of money? No, this is part of the practicalities of life. It is not success. Success is having two daughters who grow into fine ladies, two boys who grow into fine gentlemen. Success is waking up next to the loved one dumbstruck at your luck of meeting them. ~ Carol Vorvain

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. ~ Marguerite Young

But for now, the aioli. Garlic, egg yolks, a wee bit of Dijon mustard. In her Cuisinart she whipped these up to a brilliant, pungent yellow; then she added olive oil in a steady stream. Here was the magic of cooking- an emulsion formed, a rich, garlicky mayonnaise. Salt, pepper, the juice of half a lemon. Marguerite scooped the aioli into a bowl and covered it with plastic.
She barely made it through the marinade for the beef. Her forehead was burning; she felt hot and achy, dried up. She whisked together olive oil, red wine vinegar, sugar, horseradish, Dijon, salt, and pepper and poured it over the tenderloin in a shallow dish. ~ Elin Hilderbrand

People have ideas and theories about coping with catastrophic injury, but most of them are based in practicalities. They're right in thinking that the practicalities - how will you live? what will you do? - are important, but these aren't the main thing. The main thing is what happens to your vision, how you're a little different after you've seen a few things, and as far as I know, nobody really gets this, ~ John Darnielle

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. ~ Marguerite Gardiner

Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others ... ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love. ~ Marguerite De Navarre

m-shaped valance ~ Marguerite Ashton

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards. ~ Marguerite De Navarre

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about? ~ Dawn French