“It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.” — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious. — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
“The ritual was kissing her at various parts as if I were adorning her.” — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is. — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like.… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
“But had I not cut the cord? and now was I seeing what happens when there is no gravity. There is indeed nothing, nothing;… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell. — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share
