James Gould Cozzens famous quotes
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In the present, every day is a miracle.
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When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't
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I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.
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Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
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Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
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The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.
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The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
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I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.
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Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.
-- James Gould Cozzens
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