Quote by William Deresiewicz Download Open image ““It's hard to build your soul when everyone around you is trying to sell theirs”” — William Deresiewicz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But I have never been able to bring myself to sell anything, except perhaps, at one point, my soul.” — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I sold my soul, so that I can live as I must. Oh, I don't mean without morals or conscience- I… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Your soul will get you through tough times with no money, better than your money will get you through times with no soul.” — Gerard Armond Powell Copy Share Image
“You obviously don't have my soul or you wouldn't be trying to make deals.” — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
“To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.” — Farahad Zama Copy Share Image
“Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul.… — João Guimarães Rosa Copy Share Image
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them. — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control.… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“there’s a bigger social reward for being able to talk about books than for actually reading them.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“...Novels--which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“Life is more than a job; jobs are more than a paycheck; and a country is more than its wealth. Education is more than… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“By the time they finish high school—after years of learning how to please their teachers and coaches, not to mention schmoozing with their parents’… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“Getting A’s no longer means that everything’s okay, assuming that it ever did. “We have students, who, no matter what else is going on… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
![“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness.” quote by William Deresiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2bb/william-deresiewicz-15471_jane-austen_jane-austen-was-not-a-novelist-for-nothi_62623.jpg)
