Simon Mawer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water.... All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.
-- Simon Mawer

#Faith #Lying #Philosophy
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
-- Simon Mawer

#People #Saws #Type
I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.
-- Simon Mawer

#School #Space #Eight
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.
-- Simon Mawer

#Sin #Absence
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.
-- Simon Mawer

#Mind #Denial #Faces
If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.
-- Simon Mawer

#Shelter #Chance #Barricades
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.
-- Simon Mawer

#Powerful #Grief #Guilt
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
-- Simon Mawer

#Men #Depth #Prejudice
Faith is the enemy of discovery.
-- Simon Mawer

#Faith #Discovery #Enemy
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
-- Simon Mawer

#Thinking #Childhood #Suffering

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