Susan Fromberg Schaeffer quotes

“All our loves are first loves.”
-- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Source : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1986). “Mainland”, Bantam

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“When the mind is most empty It is most full.”
-- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Source : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1974). “Granite Lady: Poems”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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“Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before that, or we should all be plumbers. It must be good to be a plumber. Everyone is happy to see you, and no one reviews your work.”
-- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

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“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.”

“Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.”

“Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.”

“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”

Source : Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

“Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.”

“On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.”

“By our actions we tell Him of our love.”