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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35e02de | We were delighted to have a chance of meeting you, Miss Saunders,' said Mrs Fairly, as they sat down. 'We have heard so very little about you. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 5697059 | If you can't face living your life day by day, you must live it minute by minute. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| e227191 | On the night of September the 7th the BBC received the signal for 'Invasion Imminent' from the C in C Home Forces, who now had priority over the Ministry of Information. This signal was followed by another: 'No bells to ring till advise.' By an understandable confusion, however, there were church bells which did start ringing in scattered parishes all over the country. Not one was recorded. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 80ae2fd | Under a star-powdered sky the Recorded Programmes Department set up an open microphone on the roof of BH, which caught every sound of the raids until the last enemy aircraft departed into silence. On the roof, too, the parts of the rifle were named to Teddy and Willie by Reception from the main desk of BH, who told them frequently, as he looked down at the pale pink smoke of London's fires, that it reminded him of a quiet sector of the line.. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| a09236d | Her feeling for Mr Brooks was so much the most important part of her life that it seemed like something which did not belong to her, but which she had to carry about with her, at work or in her room, there was no difference. She had a kind of affection, too, for the love itself, which was so strong, but maintained itself on so little. There had been a time, not at all long ago, when she hadn't had this responsibility, but it was hard for he.. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| d369791 | in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question being asked, a different question for every entity, which for the most part will never be put into words, even by those who can speak. | creativity | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| ae755f3 | She did not expect success, though she knew her own worth. Her writing career was not a usual one. She began publishing late in her life, around sixty, and in twenty years she published nine novels, three biographies and many essays and reviews. She changed publisher four times when she started publishing, before settling with Collins, and she never had an agent to look after her interests, though her publishers mostly became her friends an.. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 7481fa7 | Understanding makes the mind lazy. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 0b0a0f4 | Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 017e046 | Florence tenia buen corazon, aunque eso sirve de bien poco cuando de lo que se trata es de sobrevivir. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| adaa9f6 | I'm afraid I'm not accustomed to the poor light, Mrs James.' 'Look at the sky, father. Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they'll adapt little by little. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 8d64729 | Hannah wanted to put the next day's work on the blackboard. This would mean that she needn't turn her back on the class first thing, which is as unwise in junior teaching as in lion-taming. | primary-school school stage-school teacher-quotations teacher-quotes teaching theatre-school | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| 9115c6e | He ordered a cup of tea and two biscuits for five pence and thought of nothing.--Oh, but that's impossible.--It's not possible to think of nothing. Certainly it was unprofessional of Fred, who was paid by the university to use his mind, and unwise of him as a lover, but there it was, he was occupied with bitter sensations, giving way to stupefaction, then to emptiness. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 234050f | It's a peculiar thing to take a step forward in middle age, but having done it I don't intend to retreat. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 7511fc3 | When they married he wouldn't be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn't have him, he didn't see that he would be able to go on at all. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 6a5565c | The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands. | John Irving | ||
| 4903aae | Pour Juan Diego, des morts ou des fantomes auraient du avoir une toute autre attitude, surtout dans une eglise. Que venaient-ils chercher ? Ne connaissaient-ils pas les reponses desormais ? | John Irving | ||
| 526a94f | There is no Purgatory-that's a catholic invention. There's life on earth, There's heaven-and there's hell | John Irving | ||
| a590118 | a school-vacation skier is never the equal to a north-country native. | John Irving | ||
| 49c1460 | There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments. | John Irving | ||
| 28d712b | El papa Benedicto XVI habia dicho que la pederastia se consideraba normal hasta fecha tan reciente como los anos setenta. [...] - Benedicto dijo: "Nada es bueno o malo en si mismo". Dijo "nada", Clark -repitio Juan Diego a su exalumno-. La pederastia no es "nada"; seguramente la pederastia si es "mala en si misma", Clark." | papa pederastia pederasty pope-benedict-xvi religion | John Irving | |
| b5425ae | Aren't eccentricities fairly common among overachievers. | John Irving | ||
| 13111d2 | What a phrase that is: "that explains everything!" I know better than to think that anything "explains everything" today." | John Irving | ||
| 6a4148b | book is always in motion - from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading | John Irving | ||
| 79daf17 | HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME THINKING ABOUT DOING IT?" Owen asked." | John Irving | ||
| 6aa3ce1 | I won't pretend that it wasn't gratifying to hear this, but I would rather have heard it privately; it wasn't something I wanted to share with Tom Atkins. | John Irving | ||
| f517151 | But Americans are not great historians, and so, for years--educated by my neighbor--I thought that sagamore was an Indian word for lake. | John Irving | ||
| 85d72a8 | every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent. | John Irving | ||
| c5db88d | with his own very male instincts, which were otherwise | John Irving | ||
| f508d44 | After all: I had been practicing lifting up Owen Meany--forever. The | John Irving | ||
| 380ad55 | Then he looked only at me. "YOU'RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU!" said Owen Meany. Then" | John Irving | ||
| bec1647 | When we held Owen Meany above our heads, when we passed him back and forth--so effortlessly--we believed that Owen weighed nothing at all. We did not realize that there were forces beyond our play. Now I know they were the forces that contributed to our illusion of Owen's weightlessness; they were the forces we didn't have the faith to feel, they were the forces we failed to believe in--and they were also lifting up Owen Meany, taking him o.. | John Irving | ||
| 351a223 | At Circus of The Wonder, only young women--just the girl acrobats, of a certain age--were trained to be skywalkers (The Wonders themselves). This was also on purpose, and entirely Ignacio's doing. The lion tamer liked young women; he thought that prepubescent girls were the best skywalkers. Ignacio believed that if you were in the audience, you wanted to be worried about the girls falling, not thinking about them sexually; once women were o.. | John Irving | ||
| 890f5b7 | As for Dr. Zajac's modest contribution to the ongoing pollution of the Charles River... well, let's be fair... In his hopelessly old-fashioned opinion, a lot worse than dogshit was dumped into the Charles on daily basis. | John Irving | ||
| 341d768 | IF WE FIRST APPEAR IN THE PLEISTOCENE, I THINK THIS IS WHEN WE DISAPPEAR - I GUESS A MILLION YEARS OF MAN IS ENOUGH | John Irving | ||
| c69e050 | Canon Campbell told me that most smart-ass Canadians tend to move to the United States. I | John Irving | ||
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Cosa vorresti sapere su te stesso, di preciso?>> mi chiese ad un certo punto. <|
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Ho letto tutti i tuoi libri>> rispose con entusiasmo. <> aggiunse, scandendo con cura le parole latine. < |
figli futuro genitori libri omosessualità orgoglio scrittura | John Irving | |
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E un buon segno piangere per un romanzo>> mi assicuro Miss Frost. < |
cuore piangere romanzo sensibilità | John Irving | |
| 3cd1f54 | In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still. | John Irving | ||
| e795858 | She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? In the hospital, the babies were the easiest patients. The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them. | love | John Irving | |
| 6a56a5e | We'll be back, with more ashes for you!" el jefe had shouted. "You" | John Irving | ||
| cd56bdb | And feeling like a failed sexual predator, because of pregnant Mary... | John Irving | ||
| 92c90f2 | Americans are suckers for an English accent. | John Irving |