9 quotes
To be the only possessor of news that will interest many people is always to be in a powerful position.
A Sunset Touch (1953)
"And there's so much gossip in the [countryside], Mr Menheniot. It makes a person uncomfortable."
A Sunset Touch (1953)
"In the long run, what do we have but our memories?"
A Sunset Touch (1953)
She had scuttled to earth like a beetle that knows it is in danger of being trodden on.
A Sunset Touch (1953)
I was beginning to see that my whole life had been a flight from the possibility of unearthing the sort of man I really was.
A Sunset Touch (1953)
There are men to whom a marriage is eternal and who are crippled for ever when it ends, largely, I think, because of the passion and completeness of their own contribution to it. They embark their all in one frail craft, and, if that goes, the wreck is total.
A Sunset Touch (1953)
It is courteous to respect a fellow-being's right to privacy by providing him with a room of his own; but it can be torture to make him feel that that room is where he is expected to be, out of one's way.
A Sunset Touch (1953)
I wasn't an artist of any sort, but I thought I knew something about how artists' minds worked, and I didn't believe that to change an external situation had much to do with it. It was what they did with whatever was lying about that mattered.
A Sunset Touch (1953)
"The world is an onion, Mr Menheniot, skin within skin, and anyone who thinks it's nothing but the outside one that lies in the dung can have it if he wants it. A real man of the world knows them all, down to the heart's core of the thing.
Not all on the surface, is it, like a nice David-Cox water-colour."
A Sunset Touch (1953)