The Element of Lavishness Quotes

“I think you will come to Balzac yet. When one has disproved all one’s theories, outgrown all of one’s standards, discarded all one’s criterions, and left off minding about one’s appearance, one comes to Balzac. And there he is, waiting outside his canvas tent—with such a circus going on inside.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner & William Maxwell, 1938-1978