Fontenette Indiana Quotes & Sayings

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. — Camille Pissarro

The past, hey no shit, it's an open invitation to wine abuse. — Thomas Pynchon

Me a Basseri legend? Saints, how sad must their lives be if I was the best thing they had to talk about? — Janice Hardy

I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart. — John Fowles

Honesty is overrated. As someone once said, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the heart.' "
"It was the Duc de Richelieu," said Lillian, who had read the same book of philosophy during their schoolroom lessons. "And the accurate quote is, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.' "
"He was French, though," Daisy argued. "I'm sure he meant the heart as well. — Lisa Kleypas