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"Grandad has a long and earnest conversation with his grandchild. He says, you are noisy and wiggly and will be sent back if you don't pull herself together....The baby smiles complacently. She has him exactly where she wants him."
"But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality."
"Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides."
"A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive."
"I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's."
"There's never any great risk as long as you have money."
"The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer."
"A book lives as long as it is unfathomed."
"So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether."
"Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it."
"I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense."
"A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him."
"No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love."
"She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him."
"Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing."
"Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old."
"Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness."
"The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible."
"A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation."
"I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions."
