Top 29 Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes
#1. You have neat, tight expectation of what life out to give you, but you won't get it. That isn't what life does. Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. EVERY SEED DESTROYS ITS CONTAINER OR ELSE THERE WOULD BE NO FRUITION.
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#2. I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.
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#3. Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
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#5. We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
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#6. It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.
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#7. This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.
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#8. Life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.
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#10. You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done ... you are fierce with reality.
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#11. Anger must be the evergy that has not yet found its right channel.
the Measure of my Days
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#13. Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.
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#14. It is as though God said, You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.
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#15. I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.
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#16. Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.
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#19. As we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?
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#21. No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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#23. Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.
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#25. Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.
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#26. My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
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#27. It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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#28. The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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