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Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases
In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.
I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.
What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.
The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.
Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.
I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.