Art Quote by Alison Lurie

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

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

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

— Alison Lurie

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

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

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

— Alison Lurie

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

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

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

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

— Alison Lurie

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

— Alison Lurie

“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