United States, Journalist 1950
George Howe Colt is an American journalist and author. Colt was a staff writer for Life. His 2003 book about his last summer with his family at their summer house on Cape Cod, The Big House, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
When I was growing up my mother used to tell me that the best gift parents could give their children was to have a strong and loving relationship with each other.
People, too, are more open in summer, moving through the house and each other’s lives as freely as the wind.
One didn’t talk about one’s feelings any more than one talked about taking out the garbage.
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
Once we accept the fact of loss, we understand that the loved one obstructed a whole corner of the possible, pure now as a sky washed by rain.
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