Alexandra Ripley's Quotes
Born: 1934-01-08
Profession: Writer
Nation: American
Biography of Alexandra Ripley
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.
Tags: Mistakes, Why, WritingAlso there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.
Tags: Body, Soul, SpiritThen hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.
Tags: God, Perfect, TimeBut in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.
Tags: Fire, Less, WorkIf any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
Tags: Imagine, Mistake, SoonThis is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.
Tags: Foolish, Ignorant, WaterTo that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
Tags: Future, Good, JusticeWe shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
Tags: Love, Men, Shall