Claire Vaye Watkins quotes

“A promise unkept will take a man's mind.”
-- Claire Vaye Watkins

Source : Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.181, Granta Books

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“What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed.”
-- Claire Vaye Watkins

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“Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.”
-- Claire Vaye Watkins

Source : Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.26, Granta Books

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“Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.”
-- Claire Vaye Watkins

Source : Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.28, Granta Books

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“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“I don't want to beg or promise you things I can't give you. There isn't much of me to give, but what I have is yours. This is all up to you, Sadie. If you want me, I'm yours. If you can't do this, then I'll walk away and leave you alone. I swear.”

“When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad...”

“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”

“Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.”

“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”