I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of ‘personality’. Heaven kn...
All those years were now seeming like a betrayal of what she really was. While her body, her needs, her emotions–all of herself–had been turning like a sunflower after one man, all that time she had b...
Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning...
Комплексът за вина е почти определение на майчинството в нашата просветена епоха.
Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at all to English politics—even such a long time ago.
There are people in the world all the time who know the professor said. But they keep quiet. They just move about quietly, saving the people who know they are in the trap. And then, for the ones who h...
The young often have moments of clear thinking, which as they grow older become fewer, and muddied. He had kept alive in some part of him a knowledge that he was destined to do something or other. He...
Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, How could you have believed that?...
It was not a question of Philip's having lost hold. He had never grasped hold. Something had not happened that should have happened: a teacher, or someone, should have said: This one, Philip Fowler, h...
As for Anna she was thinking: If I join in now, in a what’s-wrong-with-men session, then I won’t go home, I’ll stay for lunch and all afternoon, and Molly and I will feel warm and friendly, all barrie...
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
What matters most is that we learn from living.
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - nostalgia is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.
The nightmare takes various forms, comes in sleep, or in wakefulness, and can be pictured most simply like this: There is a blindfolded man standing with his back to the brick wall. He has been tortur...
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.