"That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being."

-- Eva Rubinstein

#Glasses Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."”
“Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.”
“For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.”
“Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.”
“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”

Source : Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.
“I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.”
“Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something”
“Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.”

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