Quotes About Insight

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don't write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can't)

Of course,' I said, 'you know her so much better than I ever did.' In some ways,' he said gloomily, and I knew he was thinking of the very ways in which I had known her the best.

They had the comfort of not learning from experience.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

In the vision there is no morality

Quizás haya un profeta también junto al juez en esos tribunales donde se toman nuestras verdaderas decisiones.

She was more astute than I at seeing the distant cloud of a quarrel when it was still no bigger than a man's hand, and she would usually take the right avoiding action, for when an embrace was over the quarrel was usually over too—for that occasion at least.

Baines wasn't really happy; he was only watching happiness from close to instead of from far away

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap

The more we know the more we love.

in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation – but I think it is equally true of us all.

You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to write about it.' 'Of course I always like to know what the man on the spot has to say,' he replied guardedly. 'And then check it with York?' 'Yes.

I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

In onze jeugd zijn alle boeken toekomstvoorspellingen.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Asking questions gives you significant power.

If we who are honored with life do not perceive the obvious, then we are forced to live it again, around another corner, from another angle.

You never know what it is like to be a child, even as a child. You have to have one of your own, and then it comes to you. You understand for the first time.

Reality abides in the eyes.