Glenway Wescott quotes
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“It is not love, but lack of love which is blind....”
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“New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.”
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“But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.”
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“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”
-- Glenway WescottSource : Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”
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“People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.”
-- Glenway WescottSource : Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”
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“There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.”
-- Glenway WescottSource : Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”
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“Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.”
-- Glenway Wescott
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“The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”
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“If I lose you because of the blind idiot I've been then I will be the one who is destroyed”
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“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”
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“Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.”
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“There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.”
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