“A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 123 of 303
“Don't give advice unless you're asked.”
“Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.”
“I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.”
“People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.”
“It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.”
“I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.”
“To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.”
“A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.”
“Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.”
“Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.”
“I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.”
“Mood can be as important as sense.”
“I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.”
“Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?”
“Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.”
“We deliberate not about ends, but about means.”
“You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”
“You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.”
“I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”