(b. 1945– )
U.S. author and professor“Nothing that year was sweeter than buying villagers we liked a pastis with money we earned working their land. If you can work in Provence, even for a single day, you should do it.”
more infosource: “Surrendering to Provence,” in A New York Memoir (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010), 46.
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category: France, Provence, sweet, travel, work
medium: memoir
“Cities have lived lives, too, and when you walk them, you begin to see exactly who they have become.”
more infosource: “Surrendering to Provence,” in A New York Memoir (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010), 45.
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category: city, identity, life
medium: memoir
“Every one of us lives a life we did not expect to live. We begin with passions and dreams and with the basic conviction that all will turn out for the good, more or less. Some of it does turn out for the good. Most of it, though, is a startling combination of the unexpected and the inconceivable. Every door we walk through introduces us to a strange land, and then we set about seeing if this is a place where we can grow.
For me, New York City has been the great opened door.”
source: A New York Memoir (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010), introduction, xii.
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category: dream, expectation, life, New York City, passion
medium: memoir
Richard Goodman