Being A Child Is In

We Prefer To Think That The Absence Of Inverted Commas Guarantees The Originality Of A Thought, Whereas It May Be Merely That The Utterer Has Forgotten Its Source.

A Bottle Of Wine Begs To Be Shared; I Have Never Met A Miserly Wine Lover. The Social Emotions It Generates Are Equidistant From The Philatelist's Solitary Gloating And The Football Fan's Gregarious Hysteria.

Seriously, I Do Not Know What To Say Of This Book [ Absalom, Absalom!] Except That It Seem To Point To The Final Blowup Of What Was Once A Remarkable, If Minor, Talent… This Is A Penny Dreadful Tricked Up In Fancy Language And Given A Specious Depth By The Expert Manipulation Of A Series Of Eccentric Technical Tricks. The Characters Have No Magnitude And No Meaning Because They Have No More Reality Than A Mince-pie Nightmare.

There Are Two Kinds Of Writers; The Great Ones Who Can Give You Truths, And The Lessor Ones, Who Can Only Give You Themselves.

I Think We Must Quote Whenever We Feel That The Allusion Is Interesting Or Helpful Or Amusing.