Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 15, 1890 Death: September 18, 1980
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own..
Be respectful of words. They mean something..
. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses..
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards ….
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and ….
It is such a relief to be told the truth..
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity..
I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint..
we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come,….
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them..
There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decora….
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to tha….
We are born knowing death..
Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were..
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it..
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive..
Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all….
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life..
The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someon….
I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is….
we know that the Furies do not come uninvited..