I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how tightly you keep the lid on, there is some watered stock of vanity inside. You are always in danger of the thing's coming off and of giving yourself an air or two. No man or woman… — Corra May Harris Copy Share
Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love. — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
As I have grown older I am more and more convinced that I have not grown up, that my powers have not come to me, not my real wisdom to do and achieve the right thoughts. I lack some dear grace. I cannot seem to steady down and get the single eye. There is a curriculum in living in which… — Corra May Harris Copy Share
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a… — Corra May Harris Copy Share
Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
