Source: Little Women
Source: Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business
“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
Source: Jacob's Room
“I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.”
As quoted in "Cary Grant is puzzled because you have No Time for Laughs" by Robert Ottaway in Picturegoer magazine (4 January 1958)
Letter to his mother, written from the University of Pennsylvania (12 February 1904), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 5
General sources
“My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won't do any more than I want to do.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.”
As quoted in "Terry Gilliam reflects to Dreams about the making of Dr Parnassus" by Phil Stubbs http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/parntgrf.htm
Context: We read Dover Books, because you can steal from them. The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination. Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.
Source: Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
