My Father and Myself Quotes

“A good many questions have been asked, few receive answers. Some facts have been established, much else may well be fiction, the rest is silence. Of my father, my mother, myself, I know in the end practically nothing. Nevertheless I preserve it, if only because it offers a friendly, unconditional response to my father’s plea in his posthumous letter, I hope people will generally be kind to my memory.”
― J.R. Ackerley, My Father and Myself

“I have reason to believe that I often wear a frown. Our public faces can be known to us only by hearsay. And I have been given several clues to my own; a preoccupied, anxious look seems to be my most subtle guise tinged by sadness. A charming smile, sunshine through tears, someone once described it to me. I find a wise and piercing stare I am told though whatever they pierce I have no notion. And as I say, a frown may darken my face.”
― J.R. Ackerley, My Father and Myself

“Unable, it seemed, to reach sex through love, I started upon a long quest in pursuit of love through sex.”
― J.R. Ackerley, My Father and Myself