Alan Cornett

“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.”
― Graham Greene, Orient Express

“She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.”
― Graham Greene, Orient Express

“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.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited