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Susan Glaspell Quotes: Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
         

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.


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The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.



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What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.



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What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.



But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?





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