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Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year Quotes
Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
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“But spring in England is like a prolonged adolescence, stumbling, sweet and slow, a thing of infinitesimal shades, false starts, expectations, deferred hopes, and final showers of glory.”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
“Not everyone requires, nor seeks, the stimulus of the recurring image. They are content to be without directions. But for those of us who are branded by this particular mark, at least we know where we're going.
We are going, as it were, on a series of seasonal journeys, the climax of which is simply returning home.”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
We are going, as it were, on a series of seasonal journeys, the climax of which is simply returning home.”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
“I don't say that this way happiness lies (believing mere happiness to be one of life's shallower experiences). (pp147)”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
“For the handmade object is one of the last visible defences of humanism left to us, and the craftsman ministers to out most basic needs. (pp 135)”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
“History and progress has changed the emphasis of our lives, and it is too late to complain. (pp 132)”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
“Such a simple obsession may be the refuge of one's years, the desire to keep a finger in time, a brief hand in creation, to play a minor god, or even to come to terms with death. I only know that small as my garden is I again have a living root, that even for me something can come to perfection; that I still have a place on earth. (pp 46)”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
“My theory is that a strong and healthy man isn't likely to be creative. It is illness and pain that encourages him to live another life. (pp24)”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
“My theory is that a strong healthy man isn't likely to be creative. It is illness and pain that encourages him to live another life.”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
