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Quote by Suzanne Curchod

“Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.”

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Suzanne Curchod (1737-1794) was a Swiss writer and intellectual who played a significant role in 18th-century French Enlightenment. Born into a Huguenot family in Geneva, she received an excellent education and became a prominent figure in Parisian literary circles. She married banker Jacques Necker and together they hosted a famous literary salon that attracted leading political and cultural figures of the time. Her daughter, Germaine de Staël, became a renowned writer and political theorist. Suzanne Curchod contributed to Enlightenment thought and women's education, leaving a lasting legacy in French cultural history. more

“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.”

“The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.”

Ends Light Fall Cutting Sky Fronts Color Rain Twenties Miles Evening Gates Thick Torn Purple Oaks Plums Evening Sky Angola

Author:James Lee

“Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.”

Night Thirds Meetings

Author:James Lee

“The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.”

Water Air Spring Fishes Frogs Cypresses Bayou Hyacinths

Author:James Lee

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