16 Quotes by James Gould Cozzens

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.