‘Each step and each new day would be different from any that had ever been because we would be together.’
Oasis Nine – (short story from Young Man on a Bicycle and other stories) – Victor Canning
‘Each step and each new day would be different from any that had ever been because we would be together.’
Oasis Nine – (short story from Young Man on a Bicycle and other stories) – Victor Canning
‘His heart and soul were at the end of his pen, and they got into the ink.’
‘Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’
‘Good things will come again, and we’ll have whisky galore.’
‘I wasn’t the least bit disappointed that Santa didn’t exist. On the contrary, I was thrilled that my parents would do this for me; that it wasn’t someone else who gave me all these things. It was them.’
‘All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad strengthens by exercise.’
‘Do you know what happens to people who set about learning to skate with a determination to get no falls? They fall as often as the rest of us, and they cannot skate in the end.’
‘Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.’
‘She was thinking only that “some other time” had a delightful sound; it seemed to spread itself over the future.’
‘An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.’
Quentin Crisp – The Naked Civil Servant
