George Howe Colt Quotes

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.

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.

George Howe Colt
- Possible
- Loss
- Corner
... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

George Howe Colt

People, too, are more open in summer, moving through the house and each other’s lives as freely as the wind.

George Howe Colt
- People
- Summer
- Open
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

George Howe Colt
- World
- Poetic
- Sensibility
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.

George Howe Colt
One didn’t talk about one’s feelings any more than one talked about taking out the garbage.

George Howe Colt
- Feelings
- Taking
- Garbage