“[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.”
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People Quotes — page 806 of 5018
“The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?”
“...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.”
“Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.”
“When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.”
“Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.”
“How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?”
“It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.”
“True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.”
“The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.”
“The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.”
“We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.”
“People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.”
“I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.”
“There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.”
“When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.”
“It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.”
“People seem to think I'm Satan.”
“I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.”
“My big goal in life is to prove people wrong.”