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“If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.”

Ifs Knows Kind Said Stills Book Sides Pleasure Secret Wise Written Treats Details Driven Paris Intimate Fascinating Delicious Casual Amusing Lively Antagonist Syntax Meticulous Christine

Author:Rosellen Brown

“Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.”

Source: Emile: Or, On Education

“every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.”

People Mind Soul Hands Growth Secret Quality Written Critics Heavy Explanation Monstrous Biographers

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.”

Men Should Heart Book Matter Easy Hours Secret Half Company Written Reader Intelligent Lays Critics Conviction Every Man Impression Sufficient Unfinished Reviewers

Book:In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

“And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.”

Natural Secret Written Food Cooking Prepared Details Culinary Observing

Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz

“The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.”

Success Sides Secret Written Doors Secret To Success Auditoriums

Author:Judith Crist

“The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.”

Book Young Father Nations Process Powerful Secret Written Journey Unusual Haunting Secret Life Personal History

Author:Alan Lightman

“Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.”

Hard Fall Secret Novel Wise Written Loyalty Lust Compromise Impulse Contentment Capture Elegant Contradictory Restlessness

Author:John Dalton

“If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear. . .”

People Ifs Way Book Stories Language Difficult Pay Secret Written Reader My Way Halls

Author:Robertson Davies

“Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.”

Firsts May Whole Law Change Secret Written Identity Rings Code

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.”

People Home Together Guy Secret Written Constitution Bunch Chickens Contracts Get Together Secret Knowledge

Author:David Mamet

“I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."”

Firsts Wells Age Form Views Secret Known Novel Successful Saws Written Males Finals Point Of View Editors Well Known Assured

Author:Donna Tartt

“Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.”

Secret Fire Written Adversity Scripture Visible Ink

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.”

Secret Known Written Communication Understood Code Nonverbal

Author:Edward Sapir