62 Quotes by Clifford Thurlow

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.

Don't let baby slip too quickly from your fingers. Hang on tight until she's ready to go. And then hang on a little longer.

Beyond a certain point we reach repetition and discover we are on the way back. Thus, life has no purpose beyond what it is at this moment.

Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield.

Time is fixed and time is flexible. It is an invention by man and the curse of man. We all need more time.

It’s lost time that matters, the time between time, the moments when you forget time and things just happen.

It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed ‘station’ in life. It’s what keeps the poor downtrodden.

Wars are remembered when those who were there would rather forget.

Dust. You forget about the dust. It hangs over the landscape like a ragged curtain. It scratches your throat. The air tastes of sulphur, saltpetre, cordite, burning rubber and burning oil from the pipelines and wells sabotaged by ISIS to disrupt aerial surveillance.