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Top 10 Howard Norman Quotes (2025 Update)

Howard Norman Quote: “What good is intelligence,′ Akutagawa asked, ’if you can’t ever discover a useful melancholy?”

1. “What good is intelligence,′ Akutagawa asked, ’if you can’t ever discover a useful melancholy?”

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Howard Norman Quote: “Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think about myself.”

2. “Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think about myself.”

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Howard Norman Quote: “Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that’s only each other’s to give.”

3. “Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that’s only each other’s to give.”

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Howard Norman Quote: “I didn’t know you could break your finger just hanging up clothes. God Almighty, you situate your hand wrong between a blouse and a clothespin and everything suddenly changes. What a stupid life this is.” “Did.”

4. “I didn’t know you could break your finger just hanging up clothes. God Almighty, you situate your hand wrong between a blouse and a clothespin and everything suddenly changes. What a stupid life this is.” “Did.”

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Howard Norman Quote: “I have always thought a person needs to constantly refine the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to keep emotions organized and not suffer debilitating confusion, and I mean just toward the things of daily life. I suppose this admits to a desperate sort of pragmatism. Still, it works for me. What human heart isn’t in extremis?”

5. “I have always thought a person needs to constantly refine the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to keep emotions organized and not suffer debilitating confusion, and I mean just toward the things of daily life. I suppose this admits to a desperate sort of pragmatism. Still, it works for me. What human heart isn’t in extremis?”

— Howard Norman

Howard Norman Quote: “If there is a next life yes, I have that hope, for it to be kinder. But probably whatever notion you come up with will be better than anything I could come up with. I’m in a constant state of uncertainty.”

6. “If there is a next life yes, I have that hope, for it to be kinder. But probably whatever notion you come up with will be better than anything I could come up with. I’m in a constant state of uncertainty.”

— Howard Norman

Howard Norman Quote: “The thing unspoken often settles most bitterly in the heart.”

7. “The thing unspoken often settles most bitterly in the heart.”

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Howard Norman Quote: “When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings are capable of preserving the history of our knowledge in the form of books, there there may still be hope.”

8. “When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings are capable of preserving the history of our knowledge in the form of books, there there may still be hope.”

— Howard Norman

Howard Norman Quote: “Early on, I’d got a sample of how Cornelia Tell questioned all motives for politeness. I’d sat down and said, “Would it be too much trouble if I got a scone with my coffee?” Cornelia Tell shot back, “Even if it does cause me trouble, do you still want a scone?” I never put it that way again, believe me. I just said, “I’d like a scone.”

9. “Early on, I’d got a sample of how Cornelia Tell questioned all motives for politeness. I’d sat down and said, “Would it be too much trouble if I got a scone with my coffee?” Cornelia Tell shot back, “Even if it does cause me trouble, do you still want a scone?” I never put it that way again, believe me. I just said, “I’d like a scone.”

— Howard Norman

Howard Norman Quote: “Life should always take precedence; when a wedding meets a funeral on the road, the funeral should step aside.”

10. “Life should always take precedence; when a wedding meets a funeral on the road, the funeral should step aside.”

— Howard Norman

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