"New York Times review of JAMES TIPTREE, JR The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon By Julie Phillips"

James Tiptree Literature See all quotes by James Tiptree →

React to this quote

More by James Tiptree

“Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death”

“The Last Flight of Doctor Ain and The Screwfly Solution”

“You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?”

“Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.”

“Our fellow passenger was Major Grogan, who thirty years before had been the first white man to go from the Cape to Cairo. It took him three years, one whole year in the marshes of the Sudd; his two companions died. It is said he ate them; I think so. He looked like a sensible man.”

Resonant Thoughts

"The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it’s the life in between—that’s all I got."

— Jeff Buckley

Music1966–1997

#life

"A man is not more entitled to be "received in good society," or at least to wish to be, because he is more intelligent and cultivated. This is one of those sophisms that the vanity of intelligent peop…"

— Marcel Proust

Literature1871–1922

#life

"Great Britain could have no other object but to use her whole influence and resources consistently over a long period of years to weave France and Germany so closely together economically, socially an…"

— Winston Churchill

Politics1940–2010

#life

"Of course I'm not kidding myself. My recent illness proved to me that I've reached the place now where I've got to take particularly good care of myself. A lot of the boys have been kidding me because…"

— Babe Ruth

Sports1895–1948

#life