Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by James Gould Cozzens

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

James Gould Cozzens was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades. His 1949 Pulitzer win was for the WWII race novel Guard of Honor, which more than one critic considered one of the most important accounts of the war. His 1957 Pulitzer nomination was for the best-selling novel By Love Possessed, which was later made into a popular 1961 film.

American - Writer | August 19, 1903 - August 9, 1978

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Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

James Gould Cozzens

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

James Gould Cozzens

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

James Gould Cozzens

There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to end, part ass if you knew where to look; or so good that nothing at all about him was despicable.

James Gould Cozzens

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

James Gould Cozzens

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

James Gould Cozzens

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

James Gould Cozzens

In the present, every day is a miracle.

James Gould Cozzens

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

James Gould Cozzens

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

James Gould Cozzens

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

James Gould Cozzens

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

James Gould Cozzens

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.

James Gould Cozzens

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by James Gould Cozzens

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