Quotes Tagged With :1950

To understand the extreme lengths to which the Sufis were prepared to go in reading esoteric meanings....

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have....

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't....

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home,....

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

I think we ought to find something else to do,” said Mandy. “But Alecto my love, you’re the first....

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth....

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom....

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven