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.
 
   
      “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    
― Anna Karenina
  ― Anna Karenina
 
      “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    
― Anna Karenina
  ― Anna Karenina
 
      “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
 
      “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
 
      “Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman.”
    
― Sons and Lovers
  ― Sons and Lovers
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