Quotes about Introspection

These people could appreciate me and take me for granted, and these men would fall in love with me and admire me, whereas the clever men I meet would just analyze me and tell me I'm this because of this or that because of that. —Anthony for the moment wanted fiercely to paint her, to set her down now, as she was, as, as with each relentless second she could never be again. What

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

I'm thirty,' I said. 'I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.