"I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below."

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Source : Angus Wilson (2015). “The Old Men at the Zoo”, p.7, Faber & Faber

Angus Wilson

#Morning Quotes #White Quotes #Air Quotes

“There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living Â— cook books and detective stories.”
“The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.”
“We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
“My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.”

Source : Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987
“Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.”
“Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.”
“I need the sun, sand and ocean to rejuvenate my spirit, the food to enliven my body and all of the familiar places, friends and family to revitalize my soul. I go for replenishment. For a kind of love that I truly know. For a place of belonging, always.”

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