Don’t hate anyone, she had said. It’s quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated.
Presumptuous
He turned on to the track and wondered why no birds were singing. The only sound he could hear was the buzz and rattle of a drill, which he assumed to be the farmer doing something to a fence. It was,...
His school had been so committed to establishing equality that the staff told a pupil he or she had done well only if they could tell every other member of the class the same thing.
Don’t hate anyone, she had said. It’s quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated. So
Burden thought irrelevantly that Wendy Williams must be attracted by bald men, first Rodney with his exaggerated forehead, naked as an apple, then this pebble-head.
Book, banging in the full stops until it looked as if he would break his pen.
The trouble with psychology, said Wexford epigrammatically, 'is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
The sensations he had were shared by many of the young, poor and beautiful: how unfair it was that they should be denied benefits which the old and ugly enjoyed.
The admonitions of those who seldom remonstrate are more effective than the commands of naggers.
The case of her following his directions and taking the footpath
Stumped in at ten past ten, wearing a checked windcheater that looked as if it was made from a car rug,
Most thumbed
When you get old, she had said on the occasion of her brother Tom’s dying, you don’t have much emotion. It goes. At about seventy, I’d say. All those things and people you were passionate about, angry...
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one ...
Forcing the carefully planned lie out with all the casualness he could muster, he said,