“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book

“...the impossible must be supposed in order to explain the superdetermination of the event”
Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 301

“He seeks order, not truth. Suppose truth defies order, will he accept it? Will you? I think not.”
Life-Line (p. 16)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“From the Divine, Eternal Spirit springs
Order and Rule and Rectitude of Things”
The True Grounds Of Eternal And Immutable Rectitude" St. 6
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
Context: From the Divine, Eternal Spirit springs
Order and Rule and Rectitude of Things,
Thro' outward Nature, His Apparent Throne,
Visibly seen, intelligibly known, —
Proofs of a Boundless Pow'r, a Wisdom's Aid,
By Goodness us'd, Eternal and Unmade.

“Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.”
Closing words of graveside oration at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, 1 August 1915. The Cause Of Ireland, Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast 1994, pg 266
Context: Our foes are strong and wise and wary; but, strong and wise and wary as they are, they cannot undo the miracles of God Who ripens in the hearts of young men the seeds sown by the young men of a former generation. And the seeds sown by the young men of '65 and '67 are coming to their miraculous ripening today. Rulers and Defenders of the Realm had need to be wary if they would guard against such processes. Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. The Defenders of this Realm have worked well in secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but, the fools, the fools, the fools! — They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.

“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”
Source: I Capture the Castle