Old enough Quote by Vivian Gornick Download Open image ““All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.”” — Vivian Gornick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Old enough
“New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“That's how New York looked: like a gorgeous, easy thing to have, even for me.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.” — T.A Copy Share Image
“People come to New York to find fame and fortune. I found both, so I left.” — Nancy Seligsohn Copy Share Image
“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“In case you're wondering, Old York looks absolutely nothing like New York. It looks older. Magnus Chase, master of description. You're welcome.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about leaving the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing," he said. "But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“All cultures in human history have believed in God and an afterlife in eternity. There is an interesting story told about the parents of… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can… — Virginia DeBerry Donna Grant Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
“And then, the last words Raspail ever said: 'I wonder why my parents didn't kill me before I was old enough to fool them.'… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
“I would like to make arrangements with you--to take her as my wife. Not right away, of course. When she grows old enough.” The… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
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