Poems List
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
To most women art is a form of scandal.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it ? three minutes; to collect the data in it ? all my life. F.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement—discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. F.
What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon . . . and the day after that, and the next thirty years?
When I was your age I lived with a great dream. The dream grew and I learned how to speak of it and make people listen. Then the dream divided one day when I decided to marry your mother after all. . . . I was a man divided—she wanted me to work too much for her and not enough for my dream. She realized too late that work was dignity, and the only dignity, and tried to atone for it by working herself, but it was too late and she broke and is broken forever.
You can stroke people with words.
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