But I could tell thee of other things, , and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou ha...
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply...
The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were a...
Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.
Never mistake motion for action.
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitous...
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you...
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
He lay there and felt something and then her hand holding him and searching lower and he helped with his hands and then lay back in the dark and did not think at all and only felt the weight and the s...
To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true.
Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
My big fish must be somewhere.