When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

oh how television diminishes everything.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.