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Miss Brodie poured tea and cast a glance at Gordon Lowther’s plate. “Gordon,” she said, “a cake.” He shook his head and said softly, as if soothing her, “Oh, no, no.” “Yes, Gordon. It is full of goodness.” And she made him eat a Chester
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“I cannot see much good in the world or much likelihood of good. There seems to me a definite bias in human nature towards ill, towards the immediate convenience, the ugly, the cheap ... I rub my hands and say 'Hurry up, you foulers of a good world, and destroy yourselves faster'.”
― Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984
― Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984
“But, father, I’m not a good man. Can’t you believe me? Must you too twist everything like Rycker and that man? I had no good motive in coming here. I am looking after myself as I have always done, but surely even a selfish man has the right to a little happiness?’ ‘You have a truly wonderful quality of humility,’ Father Thomas said.”
― A Burnt-Out Case
― A Burnt-Out Case
“But it’s heathenism,’ Mrs Smith said. ‘Who am I to say? I believe no more in the Christian God than I do in the gods of Dahomey. The Voodooists believe in both.”
― The Comedians
― The Comedians
“God’s grace is like a weather system, I thought: sunny, or cloudy, sometimes stormy, or an eerie emptiness that might be a prelude to anything, an uncertainty that tests faith.”
― My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents
― My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents
“His last project was his favorite, a movie script of Milton's Paradise Lost. In an interview, Collier said, "I think the theme of Paradise Lost is singularly suited to attract a wide audience, and especially the young audience, of today. It is quasi-religious, quasi-scientific, and deeply humanistic, being the thrilling story, with which we can all identify, of how innocent, vegetarian, Proconsul or Pithecanthropus was caught up in the guerrilla war waged by Satan against the authoritarian universe, and how he emerged as moral and immoral, curious, inspired, murderous and suffering Man." The film was not made but the script was published as "A Screenplay for the Cinema of the Mind" in America in 1973. It is an astonishing thing—not quite what Milton intended—and Satan is the hero.”
― Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984
― Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984
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