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Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: One forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

One forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: How the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

How the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: A heart of fire in a shell of ice.

A heart of fire in a shell of ice.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.

Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

Francine Du Plessix Gray quotes: As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.