36 Quotes by Ronald Frame

Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.

That’s what friends are for,” Sheba said.“I don’t know what they’re for,” I told her.“So that we don’t get out of our depth,” Mouse said.

Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of joie de vivre, or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one’s make-up.

I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.

Some things belong to the past.

Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?

Why d’you think she did it?”I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.“A broken heart,” I suggested.“Do people suffer so much?”“For love? Oh, I imagine so.”“To drown herself?”“Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.”“In legend.”“And real life’s different?” I asked.

We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.

Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.