A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.
--Stephen Crane
A man said to the universe: 'Sir I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'
--Stephen Crane
A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.
--Stephen Crane
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
--Stephen Crane
Doubtless there are other roads.
--Stephen Crane
Every sin is the result of collaboration.
--Stephen Crane
Half of tradition is a lie.
--Stephen Crane
If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a bast blue, Echoless, ignorant,- What then?
--Stephen Crane
If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool; And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.
--Stephen Crane
It perhaps might be said- if any one dared- that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.
--Stephen Crane
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
--Stephen Crane
Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.
--Stephen Crane
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
--Stephen Crane
You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.
--Stephen Crane
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