Interlude Quotes

“Fabulous lover, excellent decorator - rotten writer? Nobody can be good at everything, and two out of three ain't bad.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I'm an actor." "Oh Christ."
"And a writer." "Oh double Christ.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“Some mistakes are worth making twice.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“And I know that I would take one night with him, one hour, against everything that the world, or Hitler, can throw at me.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“What the fuck are you doing," he said, "hiding away in your parents' house? You should be back here, where it's all happening! Life!"
He gestured around the pub, a forlorn place with bare floorboards covered in fag ends; who knows what visions he saw in his mind.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I firmly believe in shutting up when you've got nothing worthwhile to say. There's nothing worse than these writers who churn out book after book, each one a little duller, until nobody can remember why they liked them in the first place.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“Happiness is marvellous in real life, but it's a terrible handicap for an artist.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I can be terribly vulgar in private life, especially after a nip of dry sherry.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?
Knowledge was coming, lurking in the future like the serpent in the garden, and with knowledge came love and the bitter sting of regret, the pain of exile from paradise”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I began to think that my life, although profoundly boring on the surface, was quite interesting in literary terms.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“Adultery would be punishable by stoning if Annette had her way; I sometimes wonder if she's secretly Muslim.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude