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41 " The thing you’ve got to understand about Eva and me is that we have a system. She does the wanting, I do the paying. That’s how it’s always been with us, and if I’m to be honest, until now it’s suited me as well as it has her. Maybe better, since it’s spared me the burden of having to want things for myself. "
― David Leavitt , Shelter in Place
42 " If the strength of our feelings was in proportion to the events that provoke them, the world would not be the place it is, "
43 " Self-sufficiency is the core principle of conservatism. At least my conservatism.” “Survival of the fittest? And yet your people want creationism taught in the schools. "
44 " It’s what I fear, which for me is as good as knowing. "
45 " It’s one thing to refuse an invitation,” Aaron said, “another to be told you’ll never get one. "
46 " The sickness that’s the price you pay for cure, "
47 " You’re lucky. You’ve got money—enough money to rescue, and to choose who you rescue—and you want the satisfaction of exercising that power. And yet there’s another side to it. There’s my admitting, my having to admit, that if I’d led a better, more orderly life, I wouldn’t be in this position, "
48 " Nell'era di Reagan, ha dichiarato Mrs. Campbell, abbracciare la causa della pace e della giustizia è un'impresa futile, stancante e niente affatto remunerativa; pertanto si presta a essere abbracciata soltanto dalle madri. "
― David Leavitt , Family Dancing
49 " What’s wrong with Barbara Kingsolver?” Eva asked. “She is the embodiment of liberal piety at its most middlebrow and tendentious. Her novels are the beef ribs of fiction. "
50 " having some warm and fuzzy impulse to make the world a better place isn’t enough. It doesn’t make you an artist. What’s been lost is any appreciation of virtuosity, of flair. "
