Clara and Mr. Tiffany
Susan Vreeland
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.”
“A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.”
“Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.”
“He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.”
“What the world calls failure, I call learning.”
“God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.”
“Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.”
“Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives," he told them. "Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.”
“To feel the coolness of the blue glass, like solid pieces of the sea.”
“Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.”
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