Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
some people always have a touch of youth about them.
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.