Laura Lippman Quotes About Past

• The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

  Laura Lippman

  Past, Knowing, Foundation

• ...Baltimore. Es imperfecto. Vaya si es imperfecta. Y hay partes de su pasado que te hacen estremecer. No todo son escaleras de mármol y camareras que te llaman "cariño". Las luchas raciales de los sesenta, los disturbios durante la Guerra Civil. F. Scott Fitzgerald decía que era civilizada y gay, podrida y educada. Los términos son un poco anacrónicos ahora, pero creo que en esencia tenía razón.

  Laura Lippman

  War, Gay, Boys

• 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.

  Laura Lippman

  New York, Attitude, Past

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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