Kay Boyle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
-- Kay Boyle

#Inspirational #Believe #Importance
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
-- Kay Boyle

#Acceptance #Decision #Intellectual
Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.
-- Kay Boyle

#Country #Memories #Spring
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
-- Kay Boyle

#Taken #Religion #Church
Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.
-- Kay Boyle

#Mother #Witty #Childhood
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
-- Kay Boyle

#Drinking #Drink #Alcoholism
I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
-- Kay Boyle

#Duty #Difficult #Performing
You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.
-- Kay Boyle

#Memories #Ruins #Chaos
Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul
-- Kay Boyle

#Jewels #Soul #Body
Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.
-- Kay Boyle

#Two #Giving #Different

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