A Fortunate Man Quotes

“english autumn mornings are often like mornings nowhere else in the world.
The air is cold.
The floorboards are cold.
It is perhaps this coldness which sharpens the tang of the hot cup of tea. Outside, steps on the gravel crunch a little more loudly than a month ago because of the very slight frost”
― John Berger, A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

“Like an artist, or like anybody else who believes that his work justifies his life, Sassall – by our society’s miserable standards – is a fortunate man.”
― John Berger, A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

“Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take place.”
― John Berger, A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor