“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”
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American writer 1918–2007Related quotes
“Throw something away and you declare it obsolete.”
Source: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 12, “Safe Conduct” (p. 52)
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.”
Source: The Sorcerer in the North
“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”
Variant: I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
Source: Every Day
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”
Variant: A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for Women".
“A crime is something someone else commits.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XX
“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else…”
Source: Mercy
“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.”
Source: Blood and Guts in High School (1978)