“It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.” AgePastSongSingingInsightSad Song Author:Judith Viorst
“To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.” PastRomanceNightPassionImaginationAliveSingingGamblingIntrigueAdulteryVeniceAbductionGondolas Author:Peggy Guggenheim