Kay Boyle Quotes
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Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
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There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
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You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.
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Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.
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I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
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The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
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whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
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Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.