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Quotes from The Wheel of Fortune — Susan Howatch

born 1940 England

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27 quotes

'Success on that scale don't make for happiness. Look at Asquith. Why does he drink? I wouldn't want you to end up a drunkard like that.'

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

Every woman needs a special friend of her own sex with whom she can 'have a haircombing' about everything from menstruation to male monsters, and Julie had become that kind of special friend.

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

Ghosts, unshriven souls, psychological hang-ups — they all exist in the mind to put people through hell — they're just different ways [...] of looking at a given situation.

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

'I deserve to be thought a coward. I am a coward. I'm just so bloody afraid of dying — of losing —'

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

Life's for living, not for mourning ... Live in the present, not the past.

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

The one advantage of being childless is that one can choose one's children and so avoid the bizarre game of chance in which one passes one's best — or one's worst — genes to one's poor innocent offspring.

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

'Acquiring carnal knowledge is like swimming in the sea ... The sea's so beautiful to look at, so wonderful to swim in, but you must never bathe unless it's safe. People so often drown in the sea and some coasts are so very dangerous, ... like the Coast of Gower.'

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susan Howatch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.