David > David's Quotes

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

“His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.”
― Dorothy Parker

“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

“There is no was.”
― William Faulkner

“During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there):
‘Could you describe this?’
I said, ‘I can!’
Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Poem Without a Hero & Selected Poems

“I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.”
― Marguerite Duras, Emily L.