Quotes About Perspective

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...

It's funny, I said. It's very funny. And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love. Do you think so? her eyes looked flat again. I don't mean fun that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling. No, she said. I think it's hell on earth.

I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

Remember, everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong." - "You think so?" - "I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

I don't know, I said. There isn't always an explanation for everything. Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. That's awfully nice.

I know now that there is no one thing is true–it is all true.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés , and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.