So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

...you can only value something if you've experienced it.

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

But after all, to kind of like people, doc, puts you in a pretty privileged class for a start--so few citizens can afford to really kinda like people.

If someone cracks up, what does that mean? At what point does a person about to fall to pieces say: I'm cracking up? And if I were to crack up, what form would it take?

Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage.

So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it?

As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.

This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at all to English politics—even such a long time ago.

A continuity isn't necessarily right, just because it's a continuity.' 'Yes, Ella, it is. It is. Believe me, it is,

For she was suffering that misery peculiar to the young, that they are going to be cheated by circumstances out of the full life every nerve and instinct is clamouring for.

It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.

A writer is the conscience of the world.

He leaves and she thinks for the hundredth time that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.

[I wrote] '...letters designed to hide behind.

Is it being said too often how much we in the West have suffered because of the long wars between Islam and Christianity, leaving us biased and with gaps in our information? I think not.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The worst of a woman is that she expects you to make love to her, or to pretend to make love to her.

...Victim-eyes of impersonal tragedy, to be impersonal no longer.

People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world." "-In Pursuit of Silence