"Everything a man writes about himself is instructive."

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Source : John Glassco (2012). “Memoirs of Montparnasse”, p.198, New York Review of Books

John Glassco

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength Whether in oxen or in men, we dull The edges of our ploughshares, and in return Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed, And so today the farmer shakes his head, More and more often sighing that his work, The labour of his hands, has come to naught.”
“I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.”
“What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.”

Source : "The Triumph of Easter" by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1938.
“Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.”
“We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.”
“The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried.”

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