Date: 1962
"Sandy screwed her eyes even smaller in the effort of seeing with her mind."
preview | full record— Spark, Muriel (1918-2006)
Date: 1966, 1968
"'You're the least important person in the room and don't forget it,' Jessica Mitford's governess would hiss in her ear on the advent of any social occasion; I copied that into my notebook because it is only recently that I have been able to enter a room without hearing some such phrase in my inn...
preview | full record— Didion, Joan (b. 1934)
Date: 1971, 1978
"Without the breath of life the human body is a corpse; without thinking the human mind is dead."
preview | full record— Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)