All Fitzgerald’s books are the product of maturity, reflection, the quickly touched depth of accumulated knowledge and long experience. Their creation reflects the new sense of opportunity that may co...
Would you consider what I call the inner eye which opens for some of us, though not always when we want it or expect it – would you consider the inner eye as one of the sensory nerves?
The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such, more like crustaceans, specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature, but still clinging to their old habitat, sunk in the deep pits they h...
Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.''I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.
En ese momento se dio la vuelta, como movida por una ráfaga de viento.
There’s two ways to be selfish. You can think too much about yourself, or you can think too little about others. You’re selfish both ways.
If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it.
Florence had noticed one or two eccentricities in herself lately, which might be the result of hard work, or of age, or of living alone. When the letters came, for example, she often found herself was...
Es un buen libro y, por lo tanto, debería intentar vendérselo a los habitantes de Hardborough. No lo entenderán, pero será mejor así. Entender las cosas hace que la mente se vuelva perezosa.
But he also saw himself as a geognost, a natural scientist, who, as he put it, had come ‘to an entirely new land, and dark stars’. The mining industry, it seemed to him, was not a science, but an art.
Richard was the kind of man who has two clean handkerchiefs on him at half past three in the morning.
I’m afraid I’m not accustomed to the poor light, Mrs James.’ ‘Look at the sky, father. Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they’ll adapt little by little.
I enjoy very little leisure in the evenings. But don’t misunderstand me, I find a good book at my bedside of incalculable value. When I eventually retire I’ve no sooner read a few pages than I’m overw...
Her feeling for Mr Brooks was so much the most important part of her life that it seemed like something which did not belong to her, but which she had to carry about with her, at work or in her room,...
Her courage, after all, was only a determination to survive. The
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
Florence tenía buen corazón, aunque eso sirve de bien poco cuando de lo que se trata es de sobrevivir.
Ein gutes Buch ist der kostbare Lebenssaft eines meisterlichen Geistes, einbalsamiert und aufbewahrt zum Zweck eines Lebens über das Leben hinaus (...)
Persevering secretary of the Society for Providing Public Access to Places of Interest and Beauty,
Llevar una oficina no es tan difícil, le dijo Just. Básicamente consiste en saber, en primer lugar, que entra; en segundo lugar, qué queda pendiente; en tercer lugar, qué asuntos han sido gestionados...