Home / Quotes / Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray

Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray

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

Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray

Author

Francine du Plessix Gray

French writer born on September 25, 1930. Her works cover a variety of fields, including history, literature, and gender studies. Gray is known for her in-depth research and unique narrative style. more

You May Also Like

“I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.”

Death Possibility Nothingness Venture Serene

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

“how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.”

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

“We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.”

Writing Funny Stuff Grew Grew Up Bunch Bizarre Funny Stuff

Author:Matt Groening

“The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.”

Ocean Mysterious Gentle Hawaii Fluid Nourishment Solace Pacific Guarded Aloof Pacific Ocean Hedonistic

Book:Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress

Source: Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress

“Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.”

Should Desire United States Novel Medical Novelists Dictionary Neurosis Megalomania

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

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

Children Parent Hero Lovers

Book:World Without End

Source: World Without End

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

Parent Forgiving Oneself

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

“If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.”

Ifs Would Be Poor Grace Bird Victim Mad Guilt Heat Thanksgiving Ovens Thanksgiving Day

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

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

Age Time Accepting Aspect Violent Hardest Hardest Thing

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

“Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.”

People Thinking Periods Train Breakup Unhappiness

Book:Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel

Source: Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel