Floyd Dell Quotes

• Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

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  Being Free, Laziness, Doing Nothing

  Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”

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• I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

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  Pain, Ideas, Justice

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• Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.

  Floyd Dell

  Children, People, Want

  Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”

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