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Nicholas Mosley quotes

British Novelist June 25, 1923

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Nicholas Mosley quote: "It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is..."
It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to. Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley quote: "What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?"
What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature? Nicholas Mosley
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. Nicholas Mosley
But had I not cut the cord? and now was I seeing what happens when there is no gravity. There is indeed nothing, nothing; you are just falling. My father had said once (or was it you?) that the only emotions worth having are ecstasy and despair. I thought - Well yes, but there is also a terror at this nothing. Nicholas Mosley
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is. Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley quote: "It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what..."
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is. Nicholas Mosley
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious. Nicholas Mosley
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative. Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley quote: "If they tell the police, the police will find out she was..."
If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell. Nicholas Mosley
Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash. Nicholas Mosley
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley quote: "It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early..."
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. Nicholas Mosley
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. Nicholas Mosley

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