What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.
We most of us hesitate to make so complete a statement - we remember and we foresee and we doubt. She had no doubts. The moment only mattered. Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an ab...
There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when one finds it.
There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when on finds it.
There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.
The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.
The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm.
The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
The Minister had a great respect for Pyle - Pyle had taken a good degree in - well, one of those subjects Americans can take degrees in: perhaps public relations or theatrecraft, perhaps even Far East...
The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest's servant, our hearts go out in sympathy to all...
Politics in Turkey are taken more seriously than they are at home. It was only quite recently that they executed a Prime Minister. We dream of it, but they act.
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. B...
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is b...
One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?
One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.
Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-wate...
Of course,' I said, 'you know her so much better than I ever did.'In some ways,' he said gloomily, and I knew he was thinking of the very ways in which I had known her the best.
My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the dying who are free from ambition. And they probably have the ambition to live. Some men disguise the...
My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gesture...