"No one asked you to be happy. Get to work."
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Colette
8 quotes
Quotes by Colette
"Hope costs nothing."
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."
"What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner."
"Hope costs nothing."
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise"
"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."(Casual Chance, 1964)"