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“How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.”
Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.83, Macmillan
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“The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.”
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“When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.”
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“Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.”
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“Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.”
Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan
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“Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?”
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“Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.”
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“Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.”
Source : Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.57, Faber & Faber
