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James Gould Cozzens quotes

American Novelist August 19, 1903 – August 9, 1978

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If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds--a search hid predisposing thoughts would help him in. James Gould Cozzens
At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second... James Gould Cozzens
Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader. James Gould Cozzens
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. James Gould Cozzens
James Gould Cozzens quote: "I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up."
I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. James Gould Cozzens
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense. James Gould Cozzens
James Gould Cozzens quote: "The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field..."
The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small. James Gould Cozzens

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