Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.