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Quote by Jeanne Marie Laskas

“You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.”

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Jeanne Marie Laskas is an American writer born in 1958. Her work covers a wide range of topics, including sports, culture, and social issues. Laskas is known for her in-depth research and engaging narrative style, with her articles frequently appearing in prestigious magazines such as The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated. more

“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

Feels Firsts I Can Body Running Young Certain House Grief Forever Taken Dying Poet Judgment Delight Lovely Back And Forth Down The Road Pints Running Back

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.”

People Knows Way Secret Behinds Poverty Judging Endless Not Afraid Drunkenness Anecdotes Severity

Author:Anais Nin

“Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”

Inspirational Sometimes Novelists Behaviour Revealing Abnormal Essayists Abnormality

Author:Anais Nin

“I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me”

Want Evil My Own Discovery Penetrate

Author:Anais Nin

“I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.”

World Heart Seeing Tears Wall Glorious Yearning Heart Ache

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.”

Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

“Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.”

People Thinking Evil Ruins Remarks Futility Proclaiming Accentuate Salvage Futility Of Life

Book:The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”

Should Remember Ugly Miserable Brideshead Revisited

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.”

Home Blessed Longing Coming Home Pledge Homesick

Book:Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

Source: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”