“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.” IfsWantShouldWritingYearsLongBookRealEndsWantedDiesNovelImpossibleGoes OnTraditionTragedyWoundsReal LifeScarConventionalHappy EndingsOld Wounds Author:Willa Cather
“Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a righteousness or like a worship, not done unless it be done all I can. For the heart must run forth without measure like a child, and kindness be wound around like a child's arms about the neck, not by measure, but as tightly and as long as they can be.” HeartChildrenLongI CanDoneRunningKindnessDutyArmsWorshipWoundsNecksRighteousnessContracts Book:More Than Kin: a Book of Kindness ... Source: More Than Kin: a Book of Kindness ...
“If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.” IfsPersonsLongMightDoubtEgoWoundsDrivingWealthyGolfersTractors Author:Fuzzy Zoeller
“Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.” MayLongHas BeensStillsWarAgeTermYouthPrideProveBraveNobleWoundsOld AgeScarUnboundOld Wounds Book:Three plays Source: Three plays