Plum Bun Quotes

“We've all of us got to make up our minds to the sacrifice of some thing. I mean something more than just the ordinary sacrifices in life, not so much for the sake of the next generation as for the sake of some principle, for the sake of some immaterial quality like pride or intense self-respect or even a saving complacency; a spiritual tonic which the race needs perhaps just as much as the body might need iron or whatever it does need to give the proper kind of resistance. There are some things which an individual might want, but which he'd just have to give up forever for the sake of the more important whole.”
― Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral

“You get so taken up with the problem of living”
― Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral

“the elders may find themselves brought in opposition to the blank indifference and ennui of youth engendered by the realization that there remain no more worlds to conquer; their fathers having already taken all”
― Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral