Depending Upon Shock Tactics Is Easy, Whereas

We Complain And Complain, But We Have Lived And Seen The Blossom -apple, Pear, Cherry, Plum, Almond Blossom - In The Sun; And The Best Among Us Cannot Pretend They Deserve - Or Could Contrive - Anything Better.

If There Is One Thing Left That I Would Like To Do, It's To Write Something Really Beautiful. And I Could Do It, You Know. I Could Still Do It.

Write As Often As Possible, Not With The Idea At Once Of Getting Into Print, But As If You Were Learning An Instrument.

We Should Like To Have Some Towering Geniuses, To Reveal Us To Ourselves In Colour And Fire, But Of Course They Would Have To Fit Into The Pattern Of Our Society And Be Able To Take Orders From Sound Administrative Types.

A Lot Of Men Who Have Accepted - Or Had Imposed Upon Them In Boyhood - The Old English Public School Styles Of Careful Modesty In Speech, With Much Understatement, Have Behind Their Masks An Appalling And Impregnable Conceit Of Themselves.