Morley Callaghan > Quotes

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.
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― Morley Callaghan

“His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.”
― Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved

“The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.”
― Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved

“The question is," Harry whispered, trying desperately to joke, "whether it's better to be dead from the neck up or the neck down," and the doctor smiled, knowing Harry was protecting himself with his sense of irony.”
― Morley Callaghan, The Many Colored Coat

“Didn't you regret the life you were leading?

They didn't answer him. The sullen dogged expression was on Ronnie's face and Midge kept shifting her glance away, trying to avoid the priest's angry eyes. But they did not look like persons aware of guilt. They were merely un- easy and resentful, as if they did not want to listen. Some- times Midge looked directly at him with a bold impatience and he saw she was pretty, and remembered how she had taken the middle-aged sober man into the hotel half an hour ago.”
― Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved

“As he still groped for that one moment, Father Dowling began to think that the whole city for years had been whispering its story to him out of the darkness in snatches, in a huge confessional where he could not see the faces…”
― Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved

“Putting his head down on the dog's neck, he vowed to himself fervently that he would always have some money on hand, no matter what became of him, so that he would be able to protect all that was truly valuable from the practical people in the world.”
― Morley Callaghan