Charles Finch Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.”
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“...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance...”
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“Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.”
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“Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.”
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“The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again”
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“Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.”
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“There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.”
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“When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.”
-- Charles Finch
