Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 13, 1876 Death: March 8, 1941
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect..
You won’t arrive. It is an endless search..
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works..
People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast..
You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of….
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There….
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped..
There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves..
Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not..
If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me..
Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value….
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others..
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself..
Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting..
I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too..
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present..
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead….
A man needs a purpose for real health..
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Ta….
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything..
I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the s….