Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed. ”

I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well. ”

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life. ”

I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't. ”

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience. ”

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ”

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ”

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life. ”

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases. ”

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes. ”