5 quotes found
“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”
“It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted”
“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no fut...”
“It's only since it's been made impossible that it's been made so damn easy. It's got like prohibition, with bums and crooks making fortunes out of hooch, everyone who might have had a palate losing...”
“After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away from; why he had refused Sandy's first invitation, and what the trouble had b...”
