Persons Quotes - Page 113
The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.
Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press
What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books
Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.
"Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 57, 1780.
Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
Anne Tyler, Monica McInerney (2012). “The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer”, p.261, Ballantine Books
Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joseph Viertel, Fletcher Knebel, Paul De Kruif, Charles Waldo Bailey (1962). “Reader's digest condensed books”
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.59, Ballantine Books
All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.110, Penguin