When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.
I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority. - Patrick O'Brian
I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
- Patrick O'Brian
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age eq… - Patrick O'Brian
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age eq…
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me. - Patrick O'Brian
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them. - Patrick O'Brian
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. - Patrick O'Brian
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth - Patrick O'Brian
We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, con… - Patrick O'Brian
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, con…
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room - Patrick O'Brian
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a d… - Patrick O'Brian
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a d…
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