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. Alison Lurie More Quotes by Alison Lurie More Quotes From Alison Lurie Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books. Alison Lurie nature loss book The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten. Alison Lurie shopping views children But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it. Alison Lurie self doe thinking There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too. Alison Lurie choices life thinking 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. Alison Lurie dress lie language truth
