Charles Finch Quotes

#1. Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

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#2. If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

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#3. then, why he saw so much of Leigh, and

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#4. There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat ...

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#5. Of course, that's one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We're still waiting for the results.

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#6. The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city ...

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#7. I've had my wild times now and then - more than my share perhaps - and I don't think I'll give them up, because I like them too well.

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#8. There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

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#9. I guess the lesson is you can't go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.

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#10. He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

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#11. When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

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#12. I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.

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#13. When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

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#14. What fools American can be for England

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#15. When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

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#16. Men lived and died all the time by the peculiarities of their soul, which they could never expect one another to understand.

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#17. Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

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#18. It had been a perfect nap
the sort a man runs into now and again by chance ...

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#19. The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

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