"You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Feelings Quotes #Trying Quotes #Stories Quotes

“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.”
“To think of failure is to fail.”
“When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.”
“I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.”
“We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.”
“I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.”
“As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.”
“The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.42, New Directions Publishing

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