how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.
Francine du Plessix GrayAs to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.
Francine du Plessix GrayI didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.
Francine du Plessix GrayI venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.
Francine du Plessix Gray