“It is not that a poem or a painting or a palm tree or a person is ‘true,’ but rather that it ignites the desire for truth in us. It gives us an electric brightness, which leaves us prepared to undergo a giant labor.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com
“"If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me, ‘Uh, that’s as beautiful as we can get you.’ And I went home and started crying to my wife, and I said, ‘I have to make this picture.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I think I’m an interesting…”— Dustin Hoffman, youtube.com
“She was decidedly attractive, he saw, but in an ill-natured, ungracious way. Because of his connection with Fitzgerald, Carstairs & Scott, Johnnie had an extensive knowledge of the external appearance and different modes of behavior of a great variety of attractive women: they came up to the office…”— Patrick Hamilton, amazon.ca
“There were just all those evenings we sat together and it doesn't seem possible that it will never be again. It was like we were the only two people in the world. No one will ever understand how happy we were...I could sit there all night watching her, just the shape of her head and the way the hair…”— John Fowles, fowlesbooks.com