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He has shown himself to be someone who is worthy of my gratitude. For you understand, my child—Colette was again writing to Germaine Patat—everything I’m not speaking of in this letter.… Distance and...

Judith Thurman

He has shown himself to be someone who is worthy of my gratitude. For you understand, my child—Colette was again writing to Germaine Patat—everything I’m not speaking of in this letter.… Distance and...

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Judith Thurman

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

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About Author
Judith Thurman (born 1946) is an American writer, biographer, and critic. She is the recipient of the 1983 National Book Award for nonfiction for her biography Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller. Her book Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette was a finalist for the 1999 nonfiction National Book Award. In 2016, she received the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.She is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.

It is true that most of these men were closeted transgressors, while Colette played out her revolt in public. They were secretly attracted by her vital force. Their languor and formality were alien to...

Judith Thurman

It is true that most of these men were closeted transgressors, while Colette played out her revolt in public. They were secretly attracted by her vital force. Their languor and formality were alien to...

Nothing remains to me except to be someone who has never acted in her own best interest, and who has never known a greedy passion except one: to cherish.

Judith Thurman

Nothing remains to me except to be someone who has never acted in her own best interest, and who has never known a greedy passion except one: to cherish.

There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some primal personal thing that, of course, you have no idea about. In the e...

Judith Thurman

There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some primal personal thing that, of course, you have no idea about. In the e...

To cool off mind and body, she went rowing on the lake in the Bois. O healthy exercise, distract me from such thoughts that might unsettle a sturdy creature of my kind!

Judith Thurman

To cool off mind and body, she went rowing on the lake in the Bois. O healthy exercise, distract me from such thoughts that might unsettle a sturdy creature of my kind!

My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the man I loved.

Judith Thurman

My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the man I loved.