Sturdy Quotations

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

The key to every man is his thought.