"My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow"

-- Colleen McCullough

#Character Quotes #Teeth Quotes

“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”
“I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.”
“I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.”
“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”
“We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.”
“And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.”
“Denser cities are smarter and more productive”
“There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.”

Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Acceptance World: Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.130, University of Chicago Press

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