"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-- Thomas Mann

#Fate Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Faces Quotes

“God don't like complaints.”
“Modeling was successful for me. I didn't have to wait tables or anything like that, so that was nice. And I got to see the entire world.”
“I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”
“What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?”
“To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.”
“I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.”
“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”
“The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on.... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten.... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.”

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