A Kind of Loving Quotes

“You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness, joy, living - you've got to share living before you can find love. Being in love doesn't last, but you can find love to take its place.”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

“The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

“I can't imagine myself at that age with all my troubles behind me and nothing left but pottering in the garden till the end.”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

“I think it's a pity she doesn't read because it means we shan't ever be able to talk about the books we've both read and recommend them to one another.”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

“Bints are the very devil to understand.”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

“Mr Van Huyten tells me to have patience with music and it’ll all open out like a big flower some day. ‘Why do they make it so hard to listen to?’ I ask him one night when we’re coming back from a Hallé concert in St George’s Hall in Bradford. ‘But they don’t set out to do that, Victor,’ he says. ‘That’s just the point. These popular tunes that you have in the… what do you call it – the Hit Parade? They’re so simple they go in one ear and out the other. How long do they last? A few weeks, or a month or two at the most. But this is music which endures for hundreds of years. It will be listened to as long as men live. Can you expect music of that stature to have the immediate appeal of a popular song? Someone once said that great art doesn’t reveal all its secrets at one glance. Be patient, let it work on you, let it flow over you. One day you’ll hear the most glorious music where you now hear only a din. You’ll hear it all, Victor, I hope. The thunder and majesty of Beethoven, the grace and tragic beauty of Mozart, the glorious singing of Brahms, the noble sadness of Elgar. It’s like a wonderful voyage of discovery, Victor, with magic over every horizon. Here is all the music in the world just waiting for you to find it. How I wish I could go back fifty years and discover it all afresh!”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

“...a bloke can have six cars and holidays in the south of France every year and it's still what's inside him what counts.”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

“Well, she can't have it both ways, can she? Just like a woman to want it, though.”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving

“I often wonder what it is makes bints pair off like this, one lovely and one horrible. You see it all the time and it must have turned more lads against one another than nearly anything else because if you're hunting in pairs somebody's got to have the horror.”
― Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving