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> [“Her religion--perhaps, Alwyn thought, American Christianity as a whole--was a religion of ideal prose; all the beauty it had was the elegance of a perfect law, a Napoleonic code. It deified Jesus, but deified Him as a social leader and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/her-religion-perhaps-alwyn-thought-american-christianity-as-a-whole/)

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## More by Glenway Wescott

> [Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/time-is-the-nervous-system-of-narration-whether-factual-or-fictive-if/)

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> [New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/new-york-city-is-a-great-apartment-hotel-in-which-everyone-lives-and/)

[Glenway Wescott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenway-wescott/)

> [“Her religion--perhaps, Alwyn thought, American Christianity as a whole--was a religion of ideal prose; all the beauty it had was the elegance of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/her-religion-perhaps-alwyn-thought-american-christianity-as-a-whole/)

[Glenway Wescott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenway-wescott/)

> [It is not love, but lack of love which is blind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/it-is-not-love-but-lack-of-love-which-is-blind/)

[Glenway Wescott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenway-wescott/)

> [But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/but-let-us-laugh-carelessly-like-other-men-let-us-be-timid-even-among/)

[Glenway Wescott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenway-wescott/)

> [“In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/in-marriage-insult-arises-again-and-again-and-pain-has-to-be-not-only/)

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> [People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/people-as-a-rule-do-mean-much-more-than-they-understand/)

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> [“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/for-alwyn-s-grandfather-who-was-known-as-the-greatest-talker-in-the/)

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> [“The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/the-boy-thought-how-powerful-a-story-is-and-how-by-a-kind-of-magic-it/)

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> [“Hugo, child, have I ever said that I loved you? Do you know that your fists are clenched? You aren't going to strike me-'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/hugo-child-have-i-ever-said-that-i-loved-you-do-you-know-that-your/)

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> [Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/life-goes-on-and-on-after-one-s-luck-has-run-out-youthfulness/)

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> [There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenway-wescott/there-must-always-be-some-pretentiousness-about-literature-or-else-no/)

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