No avail Quotes

“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that I now find I myself have left behind me, which have shown me some right, or wrong, way I have come. What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another. But 'avail' is not what I want; freedom ahead is what each story promises - beginning anew. And all the while, as further hindsight has told me, certain patterns in my work repeat themselves without my realizing. There would be no way of knowing this, for during the writing of any single story, there is no other existing. Each writer must find out for himself, I imagine, on what basis he lives with his own stories.”

“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that I now find I myself have left behind me, which have shown me some right, or wrong, way I have come. What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another. But 'avail' is not what I want; freedom ahead is what each story promises - beginning anew. And all the while, as further hindsight has told me, certain patterns in my work repeat themselves without my realizing. There would be no way of knowing this, for during the writing of any single story, there is no other existing. Each writer must find out for himself, I imagine, on what basis he lives with his own stories.”

“If you don’t know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker!”

“Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail!”

“There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.”

“There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.”

“There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.”

“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.”

“For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.”

“Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”