Estrangement quotes

  • During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

  • There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.

  • Forest have now lost six matches without winning.

  • Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

  • Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging ...

  • My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  • It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

  • I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

  • I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

  • I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.