An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
Vera BrittainMost men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.
Vera BrittainFew of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.
Vera Brittain