Words that outlived
the people who said them

“And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.”

“Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

“Forever is composed of nows.”

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”