Kathleen Norris Quotes

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My brother was what he is now; I never had a cent that he didn't borrow. He calls it borrowing.

Kathleen Norris
Blackmail on a large scale is respectable, like everything else on a large scale.

Kathleen Norris
If there were but one place in the world where we could find them [books], we must all be pilgrims. If one man possessed them all, we must all be suitors.

Kathleen Norris
I have discovered that middle-age is not a question of years. It is that moment in life when one realizes that one has exchanged, by a series of subtle shifts and substitutes, the vague and vaporous dreams of youth, for the definite and tangible realization.

Kathleen Norris
Times had changed; women could do things now that they couldn't do thirty years ago.

Kathleen Norris
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

Kathleen Norris
Life is very simple... It merely consists in learning how to accept the impossible, how to do without the indispensable, how to endure the insufferable. What could be easier?

Kathleen Norris
What of Heaven is only this earth, clean and right at last, and Hell only the realization of what we might have done, and didn't do — for each other!

Kathleen Norris
The only difference between men really seems to be that some wear baggy pants and own up to being sultans, and others don't!

Kathleen Norris
But somehow one never had time to stop and savor the taste of life as the stream of it flowed by. It would be good to find some quiet inlet where the waters were still enough for reflection, where one might sense the joy of the moment, rather than plan breathlessly for a dozen mingled treats in the future.

Kathleen Norris
Home ought to be our clearing house, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Kathleen Norris