“His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.”
― Orient Express
― Orient Express
“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”
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“She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.”
― Orient Express
― Orient Express
“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”
― The Moviegoer
― The Moviegoer
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of each generation, while time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity, and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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