Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 31, 1884 Death: August 22, 1963
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more ….
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles..
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them..
Truth is its own defense..
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity..
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out..
Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long..
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less indiv….
... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's..
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!.
Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making..
... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hid….
A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by..
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone..
with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!.
Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?.
No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance..
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!.
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal..