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1 " What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else. "
― Paula Marantz Cohen , What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper
2 " It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives. "
3 " He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them. "
― Paula Marantz Cohen
4 " Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. What was the point of boo-hooing, as she saw it, when "no man is a prince, except in the imagination"? It was the same thing Marcy had said: "No one is as good as you think they are. "
5 " She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate. "
― Paula Marantz Cohen , Jane Austen in Boca
6 " Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. "
7 " She can't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture-that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them. "
8 " He could not do most things, and what he could do, he did. But William had always been capable of many things. The stress of choice had weighed on him. "
9 " Much better he should read for the first half of his life and then live for the next half. That's the proper sequence to know what you're doing. Nowadays, they start off by living and never get around to reading – it explains the mess we're all in. "
― Paula Marantz Cohen , Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the Sats
