"It do seem to me that the life of man is merely a pattern scrawled on Time, with little thought, little care, and no sense of design. Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment."
"How Green Was My Valley" by Richard Llewellyn, 1939
"It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge around Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough."
"How Green Was My Valley" by Richard Llewellyn, 1939
"It has always seemed to me that there is something big to be felt by a man who has made up his mind to leave the things he knows and go off to strange places."
"How Green Was My Valley" by Richard Llewellyn, 1939
"Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse."
"The Comedians" by Graham Greene (1966)
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