Willa Cather Quote

It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.

"A Chance Meeting" ~ First published in The Atlantic Monthly (1933) - Not Under Forty (1936)