The Truth About Constance Weaver Quotes

“You poor things. You think that learning is remembering. No wonder you find it so dull. Real learning is hunting for the truth.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver

“He understands that the ‘childish things’ are not really things; not objects. Saint Paul is not talking about what you do with the toys you have outgrown. He is talking about your character. Put away. Put away. The irony is horrible. The suggestion, being offered with the usual mix of piety and end-of-term bonhomie, is that you should take the innocent child in your hands and murder it. Stuff the body into a cupboard. Lock the door. Is this what they expect of you now? James feels a savage loyalty to himself. He imagines now how he will kick and fight to prevent them from putting him away and replacing him with something else.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver

“He is talking almost sunnily about manners and friendship, love and service, goodwill and generosity and forgiveness—everything, in fact, a salad bar of crisp Christian virtues, healthy and cleansing, something to be carried away from school to sustain one in the wider world, the moral equivalent of that packed lunch.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver

“Somehow these biblical figures roam about all over the desert, and the Bible is annoyingly thin on how they eat and drink, whether they carry moleskin and loo paper and a Primus to cook on, that sort of thing.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver

“the shock of it is, being a woman in late middle-age feels exactly like being a woman of twenty-three on whom an especially savage trick has been played.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver

“James fantasised about marrying this woman, and being a scholar, and leaving her at home while he went out into the world in a longship to hunt down the fierce but nourishing Truth.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver

“Always hang onto the possibility that what has appeared to you as the truth is its exact opposite.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver

“He was the sort of don whose fondest dream is a student both intelligent enough and spineless enough to write three hundred pages on the significance of the blank page in Tristram Shandy.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver

“He lives at Twitnam and is a freind of Mr Pope, a circumstance wch inclines me against him.”
― Richard Farr, The Truth About Constance Weaver