Belle Ami > Belle's Quotes

“Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”
― John Updike, Couples

“If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed.”
― Belle Ami

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
― Golda Meir

“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'the artist' and the all-sufficiency of 'art' and 'beauty' and 'love,' back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermude, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time--back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.”
― Thomas Wolfe

“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci”
― Leonardo da Vinci