101 Quotes by Paul Russell

"Did one learn or was one shaped?"

"That’s the way Chris lives, warning everyone who gets close of the lightning that may strike. Never touch anything, never make a mark. But Anatole can’t live that way. The world’s too lonely a place: he has to touch things, he has to put his arms around them."

"There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden."

"Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them."

"Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another."

"Having without having: it’s possible, isn’t it, that that’s worse than not having at all?"

"Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives."

"Though she’s long ago come to her own conclusions – that when you get down to it, it’s always fucking that matters, not talking."

"The world is what it is."

"If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?"