quotes about Estrangement

“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.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

“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.”