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;… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
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… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
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… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
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… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world.… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“In most novels it is taken for granted that people over fifty are as set in their ways as elderly apple trees, and as… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
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… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“Having a chronic illness, Molly thought, was like being invaded. Her grandmother back in Michigan used to tell about the day one of their… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
