Steven Carroll famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
One of my secrets is to joke all the time.
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

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