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“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913)”
― Letters
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913)”
― Letters
“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”
― On Education: On Education
― On Education: On Education
“Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.”
― Within a Budding Grove
― Within a Budding Grove
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me.”
― Factotum
room was like sunlight to me.”
― Factotum
“Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.”
― Lost in the Funhouse
― Lost in the Funhouse
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