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Alison Lurie Quotes

1926–2020 United States

Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs.

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To illustrate any text is also to interpret it.

Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups (1990)

You come to a certain age and you know there is no event that can ruin your life. Or completely change it.

Beatrix Potter portrayed the world from a mouse’s- or rabbit’s- or small child’s-eye view. The vantage point in her exquisite watercolors varies from a few inches to a few feet from the ground, like that of a toddler.

Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups (1990)

Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alison Lurie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.