“ People as a rule do mean much more than they understand. ”
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.
~ Glenway Wescott
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
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.
