Jan Struther Quotes

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• And I am a mockery, who was God before.
• In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;
• A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not…
• It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.
• Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.
• It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live…
• Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That…
• There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up,…
• Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own…
• Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were…
• It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.
• The blessed drink of early morning tea.

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