In Certain Circles
Elizabeth Harrower
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.”
“What makes men superior is that they don’t—on the whole—stop functioning forever because of another person. They lack this built-in handicap, and are they lucky!”
“What is it about someone genuine that makes other people want to crucify him in some tiny-seeming way? Someone has probably written the reason down in a book. But no one takes any notice, if we do know.”
“What I do understand is that at any point in a woman’s life she may come across something like a cement pyramid in the middle of the road. Another person. People. She’s capable of sitting there, convinced that it would be impossible to forsake her position, till it becomes a private Thermopylae. This sort of block was probably designed for the survival of our species, but the cost’s high. What makes men superior is that they don’t – on the whole – stop functioning forever because of another person . . . .”
“Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self.”
“If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration.”
“I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted a resident analyst. Neither of us understood.”
“I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other.”
“How unfair to everyone that the knowing of one person, the separation, should so poison and diminish every other association.”
“But sooner or later people have to take up their own lives, not disperse them out as though they were knitting wool that a clever knitter might handle better.”
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Book Keywords:
neurotic, men, australian-writers, love, poverty, women, aging, australian-literature, tragedy, family-life, marriage, pity
