"The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them."

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Timothy West

#People Quotes #Foyers Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.”
“But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.”
“Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.”
“With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.”
“You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.”
“Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.”
“I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.”
“The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.”

Source : Susan Ertz (1943). “Anger in the Sky: A Novel”

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