Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. - Simon Mawer
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
- Simon Mawer
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice. - Simon Mawer
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious. - Simon Mawer
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.
When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been… - Simon Mawer
When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been…
If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance. - Simon Mawer
If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive… - Simon Mawer
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive…
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less. - Simon Mawer
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. - Simon Mawer
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed … - Simon Mawer
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed …
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