William John Locke quotes
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“In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1912). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”
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“Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”
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“No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.”
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“To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.135, tredition
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“As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.207, Library of Alexandria
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“The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC
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“If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.289, Library of Alexandria
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“Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.”
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“Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1922). “A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men”, p.7, Library of Alexandria
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“I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.91, tredition
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“You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.272, Library of Alexandria
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“Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2012). “Jaffery”, p.263, tredition
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“It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1902). “The Usurper”
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“Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
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“Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2008). “The Red Planet (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.268, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.”
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“I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
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“Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”
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“Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.59, tredition
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“I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2008). “Septimus (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.”
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“Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.”
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“The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC
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“Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
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“What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
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“Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2008). “Septimus (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.355, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Women are women and can't help themselves.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (2008). “The Red Planet (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.45, Library of Alexandria
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“It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.”
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“I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.”
-- William John LockeSource : William John Locke (1925). “Simon the Jester”, p.470, Library of Alexandria
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