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

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

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

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

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

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

A heart of fire in a shell of ice.

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

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

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

Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.

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

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

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

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

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