Quotes by Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff

And for at least that moment, I wouldn’t have traded the hundreds of books I’ve read for the few I know almost by heart.

Book

Heart

Moments

But I don’t know, maybe it’s just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I’d go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: “It’s there.

Guy

People

Years

Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It’s a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i’m just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

Knives

Mother

People

Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free … the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else’s head.

Eye

Simple

Two

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

Alive

London

Wells

Hollywood isn’t a place, it’s a way of life.

Hollywood

Way

I despair of ever getting it through anybody’s head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what’s written in the books. I don’t browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

Book

Despair

Home

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

Book

Owners

Pages

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to “I hate to read new books,” and I hollered “Comrade!” to whoever owned it before me.

Book

Hate

Pages

I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you’re a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.

Eye

Girl

Princess

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Achievement

Age

Alive

Attention

Book

Crosses

Despair

Dream

Dresses

Eye

Fall

Genius

Ghost

Girl

Grease

Guilt

Guy

Happens

Hate

Heart

Hollywood

Home

Kind

Kissing

Knives

Leaving

London

Long

Looks

Mediocre

Memories

Men

Moments

Mother

Nerves

Owners

Pages

Pain

People

Princess

Principles

Reading

Relax

Simple

Sprinkles

Television

Thinking

Two

Use

Want

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Quotes by Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff

And for at least that moment, I wouldn’t have traded the hundreds of books I’ve read for the few I know almost by heart.

Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free … the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else’s head.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

Hollywood isn’t a place, it’s a way of life.

I despair of ever getting it through anybody’s head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what’s written in the books. I don’t browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to “I hate to read new books,” and I hollered “Comrade!” to whoever owned it before me.

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