Quotes by Glenway Wescott

About Glenway Wescott:

Glenway Wescott was an American novelist during the 1920s and 1930s and a figure in the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Wescott was gay. His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.
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For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did not understand, and words which do not exist, to swell a passionate theme, to confound his neighbors in an arg...

Glenway Wescott

The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began to wonder if he would ever have anything as beautiful to tell.

Glenway Wescott

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Glenway Wescott

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

Glenway Wescott

In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.

Glenway Wescott

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Glenway Wescott

Author Bio

  • NameGlenway Wescott
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornApril 11, 1901
  • DiedFebruary 22, 1987
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship