Man Lives Quotes

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.