"No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?"

-- Ethel Smyth

#Artist Quotes #Blow Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“We don't always get to choose what we love.”
“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
“The game must have been past my bed-time.”
“I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have”
“Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.”
“Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.”
“No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.”

Source : 'The Relapse' (1696) act 3, sc. 2
“Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.”

Source : C.P. Snow (2010). “The Search”, p.15, House of Stratus

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