Pauline Holdstock quotes

Pauline Holdstock quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.”
-- Pauline Holdstock

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“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
“The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.”
“There is no future for a people who deny their past.”
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
“We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.”
“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”
“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time”

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