"To cease to love -- that is defeat."

--

Source : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

Susan Glaspell

“There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.”
“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)”

Source : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
“What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.”

Source : Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.320, Ballantine Books
“I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.”
“Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.”
“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
“It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.”
“Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.”

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