Alive, Alive Oh! Quotes

“My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness.”
― Diana Athill, Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter

“Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.”
― Diana Athill, Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

“it is that a lot of little black marks on paper can bring a person who died nearly two hundred years ago into your room: bring him so close that you know him much better than you would have known him if you met him in the flesh. It is extraordinary and it is enlarging.”
― Diana Athill, Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter