11 quotes found
“Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.”
“Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.”
“Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.”
“Hatred bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each others washing.”
“There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.”
“Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they ...”
“He had heard the voice of London that lives and breathes beneath the rumble of traffic, a voice like the continual high-pitched shriek you hear when you put your head beneath the waves of the sea. ...”
“Novelists, said Ivo, are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies and pop-stars to the sixties Merely, you know, an expression of the Zeitgeist, Nobody actuall...”
“A hundred years ago, people had perfectly understood that you could die of a broken heart, now they thought you were making a fuss about nothingCertain kinds of suffering are like radiation: they c...”
“Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cl...”
