Künstlers in Paradise Quotes

“The physical beauty of Venice and the moral ugliness of America were more and more difficult for Julian to reconcile.”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“Dust and memories,” Mamie said. “That’s what a bookcase is, Julian. That’s what life is when you come right down to it. Dust and memories.”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“Émigrés were escape artists, Mamie once said. “Not only because we escaped the evil of our homelands, but because we must continue to escape—we must escape daily from the eternal strangeness of our new world by making it our own.”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“Time is so easily squandered. Time comes and goes too easily. If you don’t pay attention, ninety years have passed by and left you behind.” “I”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“Surely, after all these years sanely navigating an insane world, she was entitled to a little eccentric fun.”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do is run after it, try to head it off, circle back, call its name, and eventually just wait for it to come trotting back covered with mud. And the odd tick.”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“Word retrieval emergency”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“The land of opportunity seized and given to someone else.”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“She thought of all the Black soldiers who came back from the war and found the same dangerous, inhospitable place they’d left, changed but unchanged for them.”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“History so often is. Especially when it’s not history but is now.”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

“How can you know things have changed, Julian, if you don’t know how things were?”
― Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise