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Top 15 Glenway Wescott Quotes (2024 Update)

Glenway Wescott Quote: “It is not love, but lack of love which is blind...”

1. “It is not love, but lack of love which is blind...”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.”

2. “New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “Life goes on and on after one’s luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”

5. “Life goes on and on after one’s luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.”

8. “There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.”

9. “People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “As a flying seed will debauch a whole meadow with flowers, one kiss, one caress not even wished for, had spoiled her peace of mind, even her good health.”

12. “As a flying seed will debauch a whole meadow with flowers, one kiss, one caress not even wished for, had spoiled her peace of mind, even her good health.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “During their last years it was as if they lay on one deathbed – the dying hands interlaced by habit, by hatred of each other and love of God, the dying mouths murmuring truths without pity and complaining still.”

13. “During their last years it was as if they lay on one deathbed – the dying hands interlaced by habit, by hatred of each other and love of God, the dying mouths murmuring truths without pity and complaining still.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “He thought himself stupid; the contemplation of grief always makes one stupid.”

14. “He thought himself stupid; the contemplation of grief always makes one stupid.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool’s paradise.”

15. “All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool’s paradise.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “The look in his eyes although it was only hatred was beautiful, like a flower upheld on a bent, spindling, breaking stem.”

16. “The look in his eyes although it was only hatred was beautiful, like a flower upheld on a bent, spindling, breaking stem.”

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Glenway Wescott Quote: “It is never too late for a little happiness even in the shadow of death;.”

17. “It is never too late for a little happiness even in the shadow of death;.”

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