George Gissing Quotes - Page 2

• To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.

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  Order, People

  George Gissing (2015). “Will Warburton”, p.14, George Gissing

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• It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

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  Stupid, Moving, Individual

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.50, The Floating Press

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• Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

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  Money, Cheerful, Use

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.245, The Floating Press

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• For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

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  Book, Scent, Lovers

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

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  Events, Way, Calamity

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.90, The Floating Press

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• No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.

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  Thinking, Should, Young

  George Gissing (2015). “The Odd Women”, p.3, Booklassic

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• Una pipa para la hora del trabajo; un cigarrillo para la hora de la concepción; un puro para la hora de la vacuidad.

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  Cigar, Hours, Vacuity

  George Gissing (1962). “George Gissing's Commonplace Book: A Manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library”

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• How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly.

  George Gissing

  Art, Morning, Mean

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• Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.

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  Christmas, Heart, Yield

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.224, The Floating Press

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• This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

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  Guerra, Escribir, Significar

  "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Summer, § VII, p. 89, 1903.

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• Estoy mucho mejor empleado desde todos los puntos de vista, cuando vivo únicamente para mi propia satisfacción, que cuando empiezo a preocuparme por el mundo. El mundo me asusta, y un hombre asustado no sirve para nada.

  George Gissing

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.246, The Floating Press

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• Quizá sea mientras bebo té cuando más disfruto de la sensación de ocio.

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  Drinking, Tea, Leisure

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• La gente tiene tan arraigado en la cabeza ese antiguo prejuicio de que no se debe escribir si no es al dictado del Espíritu Santo. Te digo que escribir es un negocio.

  George Gissing

  Writing, People, Prejudice

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.11, Booklassic

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• London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

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  London, Hotel, Shops

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.467, Booklassic

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• Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

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  Christmas, Hollies, Care

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.224, The Floating Press

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