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.

James Gould Cozzens

#2. 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

#3. But hey, at least we'll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I'm a psychiatrist's wet dream.

Kendare Blake

#4. 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

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

James Gould Cozzens

#6. 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

#7. When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.

Vint Cerf

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

James Gould Cozzens

#9. 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

#10. Any of these moments, you can turn it all around.

Bobby Williams

#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. [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

#13. I prefer to see with closed eyes.

Josef Albers

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

James Gould Cozzens

#17. Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

Deepak Chopra