Helen Simonson Quotes
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.
The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think
They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.
You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.
I miss being a student, " said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.
Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.
Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story, ' said Ferguson.
My parents told me to marry for money, ' said her husband. 'But I chose the love of a strong woman.''And look what trouble I turned out to be, ' she said.
Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.
War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.
...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations, ' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.
...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
