Alison Lurie Quotes

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.