Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.
The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptibl...
This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your feet...
The partition between love and anger is thin. I suppose it's a need to protect the self from further wounding that makes people scream at the one they love.
Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your chara...
My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I...
I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I would say it was from the reign of Queen Anne and had been bunged up by some bewi...
[What is the most real thing you can think of?]Jacques thought for a long time before answering; he tried to weigh up what was most vital and enduring in all that he had known. Eventually, no longer s...
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.
With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a central human attribute. In fact, it's the first human quality ever recor...
He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether somet...
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
You put your time where your priority is.
She had grown accustomed to people's responses to her. Many of them assumed that there was a polar choice between marriage and work and that the more enthusiastically she had embraced her job, the mor...
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