Top 11 James Gould Cozzens Quotes

#1. I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

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#2. The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

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#3. When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

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#4. In the present, every day is a miracle.

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#5. A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.

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#6. I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

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#7. Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

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#8. If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds
a search hid predisposing thoughts would help him in.

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#9. The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

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#10. Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

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#11. Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

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