"There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation……" — Jan Struther
"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, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness."
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Jan Struther
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12 Quotes by Jan Struther
Jan Struther has 12 quotes on this site.
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And I am a mockery, who was God before.
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In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;
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A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of…
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It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.
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Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.
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It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements…
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Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make…
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Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve…
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Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a…
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It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell…
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The blessed drink of early morning tea.
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