Leonora Carrington Quotes

“Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream. I am no beauty, no mirror is necessary to assure me of this absolute fact. Nevertheless I have a death grip on this haggard frame as if it were the limpid body of Venus herself.”

“I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.”

“Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”

“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”

“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”