it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. Winifred Holtby More Quotes by Winifred Holtby More Quotes From Winifred Holtby I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords. Winifred Holtby writing mean thinking it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety. Winifred Holtby independent passion fire Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy. Winifred Holtby equality life-is-good men why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use. Winifred Holtby seventies use havens The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. Winifred Holtby difficulty creation writing It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for. Winifred Holtby regret sorry feels Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? Winifred Holtby finals age time [On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization. Winifred Holtby defects golf civilization The more I see of dogs, the more I like children. Winifred Holtby dog children Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop. Winifred Holtby deals progress too-much Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure. Winifred Holtby affliction cures regret the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions. Winifred Holtby lecturer opinion voice Youth knows no remedy for grief but death. Winifred Holtby youth grief suicide When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain. Winifred Holtby pain missing love-is These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. Winifred Holtby future youth war death
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