It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. Votes: 8
Everything begins in Paris. Votes: 6
Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray. Votes: 3
I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head. Votes: 0
I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less. Votes: 0
I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times. Votes: 0
In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist. Votes: 0
Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write. Votes: 0
Only a fool would make the bed every day. Votes: 0
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. Votes: 0
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough. Votes: 0