"Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement."

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Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

Dawn Powell

#Rushing Quotes #Peaceful Quotes #Contentment Quotes

“It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.”
“Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.”

Source : William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”
“The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.”
“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.”
“Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.”
“It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.”
“Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.”
“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”

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