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 | "Dinner at the Huntercombes? possessed only two dramatic features ?
the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy." | |
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Found in the topic Food.
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| "On the stage ... masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in
everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration
either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the
cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the
level of farce even when the theme is serious enough." | |
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Found in the topic Actors.
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| ".People think that because a novel"s invented, it isn"t true.
Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly
true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what
happened. The novel can do that." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to
which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often
unrequited." | |
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Found in the topic Conceit.
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| "Growing old"s like being increasingly penalized for a crime you
haven"t committed." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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