Susan Lenox Her Fall And Rise A Novel

Author : David Graham Phillips
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230456805
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise written by David Graham Phillips and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... this, and don't stop thinking about it until you understand it: Make men as men incidental in your life, precisely as men who amount to anything make women as women incidental." Her first sensation was obviously disappointing. She had expected something far more impressive. Said she: "I don't care anything about men." "Be sensible! How are you to know now what you care about and what you don't?" was Burlingham's laughing rebuke. "And in the line you've taken--the stage--with your emotions always being stirred up, with your thoughts always hovering round the relations of men and women--for that's the only subject of plays and music, and with opportunity thrusting at you as it never thrusts at conventional people--you'll probably soon find you care a great deal about men. But don't ever let your emotions hinder or hurt or destroy you. Use them to help you. I guess I'm shooting pretty far over that young head of yours, ain't I?" "Not so very far," said the girl. "Anyhow, I'll remember." "If you live big enough and long enough, you'll go through three stages. The first is the one you're in now. They've always taught you, without realizing it, and so you think, that only the strong can afford to do right. You think doing right makes the ordinary person, like yourself, easy prey for those who do wrong. You think that good people--if they're really good--have to wait until they get to Heaven before they get a chance." "Isn't that so?" "No. But you'll not realize it until you pass into the second stage. There, you'll think you see that only the strong can afford to do wrong. You'll think that everyone, except the strong, gets it in the neck if he or she does anything...