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> [“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman and an irritable young one. And with only the books I had brought with me, most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/i-saw-an-infinity-of-such-dreary-evenings-stretching-out-ahead-of-me/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

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## More by Charles Palliser

> [To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/to-make-it-interesting-and-worth-doing-writing-a-novel-has-to-be-a/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/to-exist-is-to-be-betrayed-since-we-exist-for-others-only-by-virtue/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [“If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow’s rear end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/if-his-nose-were-a-tail-he-would-be-the-perfect-image-of-a-sow-s-rear/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/living-with-my-grandmother-in-bath-i-sort-of-thought-i-was-living-in/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/victorian-values-meant-brutalizing-people-who-were-often-poor/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [“Such people are their own punishment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/such-people-are-their-own-punishment/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/i-m-quite-intrigued-by-the-notion-of-a-book-that-is-completely-self/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/in-victorian-fiction-there-would-be-a-chapter-at-the-end-devoted-to/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/i-think-every-first-person-narrator-in-a-novel-should-be-compromised/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/i-saw-an-infinity-of-such-dreary-evenings-stretching-out-ahead-of-me/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

> [For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-palliser/for-me-it-would-be-pointless-to-write-a-novel-that-i-knew-i-could/)

[Charles Palliser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-palliser/)

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