Source: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
Context: The immediate technical cause of was the tearing of the fabric of the outer envelope; this fabric had apparently been embrittled by improper doping treatment. The real reason for the disaster was, however, pride and jealousy and political ambition.
Source: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
“Jealousy does not wait for reasons.”
Part I, Chapter 4, Playing the Husband
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Out of near disaster, came real progress.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 6, The crisis of Confederation, p. 127
The Art of Loving (1956)
Context: Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
“There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.”
Source: Frostbite
