Addict Quote by Sara Davidson

To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming…

— Chase Twichell

“Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a…

— Mary Augusta Ward

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with…

— Peggy Guggenheim

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

— Peggy Guggenheim

“The Mologai. The sun shines less in the Mologai, but heat gathers there in the shade and smoke. Steep cramped dwellings, shops oldish. Oddly,…

— Jonathan Gash

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our…

— Erica Jong

It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and…

— Nanette Lepore

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

— Edward Abbey

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“After a thousand years pass, it builds its own funeral pyre, lining it with cinnamon, myrrh and cassia. Climbing to a rest on the…

— Courtney Cole

“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out.…

— Lev Grossman