Jetta Carleton Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jetta Carleton
But very early they understood that playing was somewhat suspect, allowed through indulgence, a trivial pastime soon outgrown, and only about twice removed from sin. Pleasure was only once-removed. — Jetta Carleton
One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it. — Jetta Carleton
And maybe it wasn't his love that brought him back, but hers. How seductive being loved could be. — Jetta Carleton
Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest. — Jetta Carleton
Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them? — Jetta Carleton
Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction. — Jetta Carleton