Alessandra Stanley quotes

“One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.”
-- Alessandra Stanley

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“When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.”
-- Alessandra Stanley

Source : "Shonda Rhimes strikes back against 'angry black woman' label" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2014.

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“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

“Vote early and vote often.”

“Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”

“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation