Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. Use it or lose it, he’d say over the newspaper.
“That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.”
― Sons and Lovers
― Sons and Lovers
“Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman.”
― Sons and Lovers
― Sons and Lovers
“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”
― Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
― Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“You know, he said, with an effort, 'if one person loves, the other does.'
…'I hope so, because if it were not, love might be a very terrible thing,' she said.
'Yes, but it is - at least with most people,' he answered.”
― Sons and Lovers
…'I hope so, because if it were not, love might be a very terrible thing,' she said.
'Yes, but it is - at least with most people,' he answered.”
― Sons and Lovers
“I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?"
"I am hope.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
"I am hope.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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