With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“Government and unions have negotiated a minimum service to be maintained during strikes.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“It makes the nation possible and allows it to remain fragmented, allows people to live double lives.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
![“[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 of self-congratulation. Even what appears to be the most searing self-criticism is in fact self-congratulation. A man capable of seeing his worst side, you congratulate…” quote by Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71f/tim-parks-22093_identity_t-hese-three-days-of-meditation-have-rev_1451891.jpg)
