Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie
Alison Lurieis an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 September 1926
CountryUnited States of America
dress impossible naked truth unless
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
self-esteem school independent
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.
talking clothes where-we-come
even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ...
travel zoos thinking
Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
paper world pencils
With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.
animal doctors people
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.
nature book balance
Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
guilt want guilty
We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.
self land america
America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.
truth lying artist
If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.