247 quotes found
“Women are extraordinary creatures!”
“A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.”
“A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.”
“, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. W...”
“Champagne arrived in fltes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and th...”
“There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad...”
“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”
“Its not that we have to quit this life one day, its how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smil...”
“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time...”
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.”
“Its not that we have to quit this life one day, but its how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the...”
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.”
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.”
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of natures course.”
“He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.”
“In life, more than in anything else, it isnt easy to end up alive.”
“We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another.”
“When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of t...”
“, the wine of a womanfrom heaven is sent, more perfect than allthat a man can invent.When she came to my bed and begged me with sighsnot to tempt her towards passion nor actions unwise, I told her...”
“, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.”
“From flophouse bedTo poorhouse bread,all outhouse sorrow:I thee wed.”
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.”
