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And going into the showers I saw a suntanned young lad in pale blue trunks that I rather liked the look of.

All families are silly in their own way.

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.

The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

You can drive, Nick,' and threw them over to him. It was typical of Wani to dress up a command
as a treat.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

She kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

There are chaps who don't care for them, you know. Simply can't abide them. Can't stand the sight of them, their titties and their big sit-upons,

Ricky clearly never hurried, he was his own lazy happening.

Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers.

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...

He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child ... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe'
that was the worst thing.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

All his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

...like the roses and begonias they seemed to take and hold the richly filtered evening light.