12 Quotes & Sayings By David Grayson

David Grayson is a writer and blogger who lives in New York City. He is the author of three novels, two plays, and a book of poems. He has been a contributing editor at Writer's Digest Magazine and a regular columnist for the Huffington Post. His debut novel, The Long Walk Home, was named one of the best books of 2014 by the New York Times Read more

It was listed among the Top Ten Crime Novels of 2014 by Booklist and won a starred review from Publishers Weekly. His latest novel, The Black-Eyed Blonde, is a finalist for both the Edgar Award and an Anthony Award.

For adventure is not outside a man it is within.
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For adventure is not outside a man it is within. David Grayson
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Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. David Grayson
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What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability! - Life in the making? David Grayson
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We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. David Grayson
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Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most. David Grayson
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No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each. David Grayson
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Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. David Grayson
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Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks. David Grayson
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Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not to do something they cannot do. David Grayson
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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. David Grayson
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A life uncommanded now is uncom-manded a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely. David Grayson