Henry David Thoreau, Who Never Earned Much

If Two People Are In Love They Can Sleep On The Blade Of A Knife.

The Novelist Screws Up His Courage In Order To Invest Another Two Or Three Years In Another Attempt To Float A Boat Of Original Design Upon An Invented Ocean.

The Zest For Life Of Those Unusual Men And Women Who Make A Great Zealous Success Of Living Is Due More Often In Good Part To The Craftiness And Pertinacity With Which They Manage To Overlook The Misery Of Others. You Can Watch Them Watch Life Beat The Stuffing Out Of The Faces Of Their Friends And Acquaintances, Although They Themselves Seem To Outwit The Dense Delays Of Social Custom, The Tedious Tick-tock Of Bureaucratic Obfuscation, Accepting Loss And Age And Change And Disappointment Without Suffering Punctures In Their Stomach Lining.

Country People Do Not Behave As If They Think Life Is Short; They Live On The Principle That It Is Long, And Savor Variations Of The Kind Best Appreciated If Most Days Are The Same.

Many Divorces Are Not Really The Result Of Irreparable Injury But Involve, Instead, A Desire On The Part Of The Man Or Woman To Shatter The Setup, Start Out From Scratch Alone, And Make Life Work For Them All Over Again. They Want The Risk Of Disaster, Want To Touch Bottom, See Where Bottom Is, And, Coming Up, To Breathe The Air With Relief And Relish Again.