David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Essay: "Us and them" - p.7 [page numbers per the Abacus paperback, 2005 UK edition]
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
“If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.”
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American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905–1989Related quotes
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Variant: One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.
Source: Brave New World
“I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
As Much As You Can http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=113&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Known as the Common Law of Business Balance, this quotation has been widely attributed to Ruskin but has never been sourced to any of his works.
[Shapiro, Fred R., The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006, Yale University Press, New Haven, 657]
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