"Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?"

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Richard Yates

#Yearning Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“The most obvious â€“ and easiest! â€“ way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth is, we donâ€™t know how taking a break frees up the mind, but it does: Somehow it freshens our little neurons, or perhaps it prompts the brain to create more cleverness molecules. If you can bear to let a short piece sit a week and a book-length work a month, do so. Longer is fine, too; some authors have abandoned manuscripts for years before unearthing them and realizing, â€˜Hey, this isnâ€™t bad,â€™ and renewing their energy for the project.”
“The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.”
“But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.”
“Friends are God's apology for relations.”

Source : In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12
“All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.”
“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.”
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”
“I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.”

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