“He had the personal touchiness of most propagandists: he believed that because he was sincere, therefore his opinions must always be correct.”
1925 Winner-So Big
“The more kinds of people you see, and the more things you do, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they’re not pleasant things. That’s living. Remember, no matter what happens, good or bad, it’s just so much”- he used the gambler’s term, unconsciously- “just so much velvet.”
1924 Winner-The Able McLaughlins
“In her dreams, to be great was to be one of three things, a Burns, a Lincoln, or a Florence Nightingale. And now one dream, her first and longest, was permanently over.”
1923 Winner-One of Ours
“He would spring to his feet, turn over quickly in bed, or stop short in his walk, because the old belief flashed up in him with an intense kind of hope, an intense kind of pain, -the conviction that there was something splendid about life, if he could but find it”
1922 Winner-Alice Adams
“Is it life to spend your time imagining things that aren’t so, and never will be? Beautiful things happen to other people; why should I be the only one they never can happen to?”
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