Cozzens Quotes

#1. [On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents ...

Dorothy Parker

#2. Now there are elements of our dynamic coming slowly into view, like a photograph in a darkroom.

Caroline Kepnes

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

James Gould Cozzens

#4. If you have no story you have nothing to live up to, and every day is like a renewal

Brian E. Miller

#5. I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

Ziggy Marley

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

James Gould Cozzens

#7. 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.

James Gould Cozzens

#8. The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Seneca The Younger

#9. We cannot know the future, nor can we change it, ... It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.

Geraldine Brooks

#10. If you can't let go of the power you possess, if you can't surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.

Donald Cozzens

#11. 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.

James Gould Cozzens

#12. 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.

James Gould Cozzens

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

James Gould Cozzens

#14. Kathleen Norris' warning that "when we write from the center . . . when we write about what matters to us most, words will take us places we don't want to go. You begin to see that you will have to say things you don't want to say, that may even be dangerous to say, but are absolutely necessary."2

Donald B. Cozzens

#15. You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.

Esther Hicks

#16. The Holy God.
The righteous God.
The supreme God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. 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.

James Gould Cozzens

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

James Gould Cozzens

#19. Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts.

Spencer Kayden

#20. Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.

Patricia J. Williams

#21. 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

James Gould Cozzens

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

James Gould Cozzens

#23. 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.

James Gould Cozzens