Top 27 Glenway Wescott Quotes
#1. Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.
Seth Shostak
#2. She liked to be near him now that she had thought of a way to prove to him that life had taught her to understand and love him.
Glenway Wescott
#4. Hugo, child, have I ever said that I loved you? Do you know that your fists are clenched? You aren't going to strike me-' She had smiled. Then he had burst into tears. He had never mentioned love either, but it had not occurred to him that it might not be identical with what they had enjoyed.
Glenway Wescott
#5. A person with a healthy self-esteem is comfortable in discussing matters of accomplishments and even failures or shortcomings.
John Mind
#6. Political parties are like poets, born, not made.
Henry Ford
#7. However, because death is the only absolute equality among human beings on earth, even the ignoblest and the most welcome instance of it deserves a little ceremonious thought.
Glenway Wescott
#8. Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.
J.K. Rowling
#9. If you forgive more than you can afford, you may find yourself impoverished in emotion afterward, with a lowered resistance to whatever happens after that.
Glenway Wescott
#11. People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.
Glenway Wescott
#12. Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
Carrie Fisher
#13. Back you fly to your perch, ashamed as well as frustrated. Life is almost all perch. There is no nest; and no one is with you, on exactly the same rock or out on the same limb. The circumstances of passion are all too petty to be companionable.
Glenway Wescott
#14. Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
Glenway Wescott
#15. New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.
Glenway Wescott
#16. Realize that your gift does not belong merely to you
Sunday Adelaja
#18. All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.
Glenway Wescott
#19. 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
Bailey Chase
#20. The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began to wonder if he would ever have anything as beautiful to tell.
Glenway Wescott
#21. There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
Glenway Wescott
#22. But let us laugh carelessly like other men.
Let us be timid even among fools.
Let us knot silence around our throats.
For they would surely kill us.
Glenway Wescott
#24. In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.
Glenway Wescott
#25. Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.
Glenway Wescott
#26. Talk was one thing, but knowing was something else entirely.
Pepper Winters
#27. Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
John Lasseter
