By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.
Success is a great healer.
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me. " Illustrations, loud simplifications. . . bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.
Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose. . . That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.