"The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that."

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Source : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”

Sheila Kaye-Smith

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“Less effort in this game makes more results.”
“I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.”
“When I kicked in the first TV Â– a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels Â– it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.”
“No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.”
“The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.”

Source : Quoted by "Punch"; reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.
“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”
“I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.”
“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

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