Robert Partridge > Quotes

“You had to keep fighting or your independence and your dignity were gone in a moment and forever.”
― Robert Partridge, But For The Grace

“Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality and the simplistic notions of right and wrong upon which ‘the law’ was founded.”
― Robert Partridge, But For The Grace

“You could be too close to things to see the truth.”
― Robert Partridge, Afon

“And is it only chance that decides to whom we will be attracted  - we don’t decide that, do we?  We respond to it, we sometimes act upon it, but we don’t ever actually decide that we like someone, or that we don’t; in some strange way it is all decided for us.”
― Robert Partridge, The Rink

“enormous, something deeper and wider than this beautiful”
― Robert Partridge, Afon

“Maybe we don’t really change – we just become more what we always have been. What we were always going to be. I’m not sure that makes much sense but … perhaps as we get older we just get sort of – revealed.”
― Robert Partridge, Afon

“It’s only chance, isn’t it, that brings people into range? Only chance that the two of them ever met. And is it only chance that decides to whom we will be attracted  - we don’t decide that, do we?  We respond to it, we sometimes act upon it, but we don’t ever actually decide that we like someone, or that we don’t; in some strange way it is all decided for us.”
― Robert Partridge, The Rink

“There would at some time have to be the search for a suitable property in the country where he could simultaneously retreat from and write about the world, and from which the world expected the books that would help it, in a small way, to understand itself. The other two copies were of the paperback that had failed to sell.”
― Robert Partridge, Afon