 Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? |
| Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. |
| No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. |
| Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. |
| To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. |
| A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. |
| Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. |
| What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. |
| It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. |
| There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins. |
| He knows so little and knows it so fluently. |
| Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. |
| No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. |
| All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. |
| I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. |
| Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. |
| Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. |
| The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. |
| Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. |
| No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. |
