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.
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.
- Simon Mawer
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.
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.
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 …
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less. - Simon Mawer
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.
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…
Faith is the enemy of discovery. - Simon Mawer
Faith is the enemy of discovery.
I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers be… - Simon Mawer
I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers be…
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.
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