Quotes by Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

…Baltimore. It’s imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It’s not all marble steps and waitresses calling you ‘hon,’ you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

Boys

Gay

War

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

Baltimore

Perfect

Resilience

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Female

Singers

Taste

But you were a goody-goody, you said.’ ‘Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that’s what defines us. We’re always thinking about the things we don’t dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

Facts

Lines

Thinking

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Children

Miserable

Parent

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

Gestures

Ifs

Magnanimous

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

Adore

Running

Tape

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

Book

Challenges

I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 “employed in agriculture.” Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don’t want to forget. I don’t know what to do with the information, but I don’t want to forget it.

Agriculture

Grandfather

Mother

I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from “innocent origins.” I _know_ I’m not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.

Attitude

New York

Past

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Daddy

Dangerous

Different

Don't Trust

Eating

Eye

Facts

Female

Foundation

Gay

Generations

Gestures

Girl

Goes On

Good Intentions

Grandfather

Healing

Ifs

Ignorance

Infinite

Jobs

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Lucky

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Quotes by Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

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