Glenway Wescott famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is not love, but lack of love which is blind....
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New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.
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But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
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Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
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People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.
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There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
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Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.
-- Glenway Wescott
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!!
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The best way to be loved, is to love yourself.
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So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
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If I lose you because of the blind idiot I've been then I will be the one who is destroyed
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
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Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
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Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.
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There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
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