Alison Lurie Citas

• As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

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  Past, Europe, California

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The Nowhere City: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Incluso cuando no decimos nada, nuestra ropa habla ruidosamente a todo el que nos ve, diciéndole quiénes somos, de dónde venimos, qué nos gusta hacer en la cama y una docena de cosas íntimas más.

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  Talking, Clothes, Bed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

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  Women, Lying, Silence

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• 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.

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  Self Esteem, School, Independent

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• We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

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  Morning, Dresses, Every Morning

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• With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

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  World, Paper, Pencils

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

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  Fashion, Inspiration, World

  1981 The Language of Clothes.

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• in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

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  Art, Real, What Matters

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• You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

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  Hurt, Patterns, Fit

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.484, Open Road Media

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• La industria de la moda no es más capaz de preservar un estilo que los hombres y las mujeres han decidido abandonar que de introducir uno que no deciden aceptar.

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  Moda, Hombres, Estilo

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• 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.

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  Animal, Doctors, People

  Alison Lurie (2010). “The Last Resort”, p.48, Random House

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• Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.

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  Fun, Views, Ideas

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• las páginas de moda de revistas como Cosmopolitan parecen ahora especializadas en decir a la chica de carrera qué ponerse para seducir al tipo equivocado de hombre que lee Playboy, mientras que las páginas editoriales le dicen cómo hacer frente al daño psíquico resultante.

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  Girl, Fashion, Men

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• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

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  Chica, Correr, Clase

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• Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

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  Nature, Book, Loss

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The Last Resort: A Novel”, p.275, Open Road Media

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• We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

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  Guilt, Want, Guilty

  Alison Lurie (2012). “Love and Friendship: A Novel”, p.440, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Travel, Zoos, Animal

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• There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

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  Life, Thinking, Choices

  Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.155, Open Road Media

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• Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

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  Real, Literature, Surprise

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• Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

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  War, Men, Forever

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• 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.

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  Self, Land, America

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• 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.

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  Truth, Lying, Artist

  Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• Hay un peculiar olor a quemado en la habitación, como a explosivos. La cocina se llena de humo y del olor caliente, dulce y ceniciento de galletas chamuscadas. La guerra ha comenzado.

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  Sweet, War, Smell

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Las grandes obras subversivas de la literatura infantil sugieren que hay otras visiones de la vida humana además de las del centro comercial y la corporación. Se burlan de los supuestos actuales y expresan la visión imaginativa, no convencional y no comercial del mundo en su forma más simple y pura. Apelan al niño imaginativo, cuestionador y rebelde que todos llevamos dentro, renuevan nuestra energía instintiva y actúan como fuerza de cambio. Por eso esta literatura merece nuestra atención y perdurará mucho después de que los cuentos más convencionales hayan caído en el olvido.

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  Children, Views, Shopping

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• Pero creo que a veces, cuando uno se ha comportado como una persona de segunda categoría, como hice yo en el desayuno, en una especie de shock autodestructivo uno va y hace algo realmente de segunda categoría. Casi como para demostrarlo.

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  Thinking, Self, Doe

  Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.146, Open Road Media

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