“Nothing creates untruth in you as the wish to please.”
― The Transit of Venus
― The Transit of Venus
“Anna and Tom had grown up with the notion that individuality manifested itself as a set of visual differences, immediately decodable and in constant need of updating”
― Perfection
― Perfection
“I was old enough to know I’d be wrong about many things of which I’d once been certain, but still young enough to see possibility and perfection in new certainties.”
― Biography of X
― Biography of X
“... there was something radically inapplicable about this whole code of ready-made honour that is still the small voice, trained to command, of the Englishman all the world.”
― Decline and Fall
― Decline and Fall
“This is why parents want grandchildren. Really they want their own children back again, they long to feel that vanished and complete love.”
― Sweet Lamb of Heaven
― Sweet Lamb of Heaven
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