“There are people who want to be on their own, to mark out their own territory and be quiet there, and there are people who are eager to invade that territory, to sit close to someone else.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“It was to be, and still is, an absolute staple of the Italian railways, whether public or private, that in some way or other,… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“A big gloomy space was piled with bags, boxes, suitcases, parcels, umbrellas. There were a few shelves but no apparent order. Some of the… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“Government and unions have negotiated a minimum service to be maintained during strikes.” — Tim Parks Copy Share
“And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, ‘So you’ve come to demonstrate that it… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“It makes the nation possible and allows it to remain fragmented, allows people to live double lives.” — Tim Parks Copy Share
“Your ticket says via Pordenone,” he told me. “Don’t you read your documento di viaggio?” I was fascinated. What kind of man is it… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“In America the lack of investment in train travel speaks eloquently of a country always ready to appear righteous but pathologically averse to surrendering… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“Once, when the minibar boy saw me promptly dump my receipt in the ashtray, he warned me that I was legally obliged to retain… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“[T]hese three days of meditation have revealed to me that every thought I think is, in one way or another, an ugly, fatuous form… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.” — Tim Parks Copy Share
“it was through constructing a network of railways across some of Europe’s most arduous terrain that the newly formed Italian nation won a reputation… — Tim Parks Copy Share
“Prepare for surprises in the second part, where everything changes so that much can remain the same.” — Tim Parks Copy Share
“However reluctant Italians are to embrace a multiracial society, the old antipathy to government and authority works in favor of the illegal alien.” — Tim Parks Copy Share
