Guilty Thing Quotes

“10.  … emancipation from worldly cares – anxieties – and connexions – and from all that is comprehended under the term business”
― Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

“De Quincey remained convinced that the poppy allowed him access to the ‘inner world of secret self-consciousness’ in which ‘each of us lives a second life apart and with himself alone’.”
― Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

“Byron himself and the philosopher William Godwin, who brought along his daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin – braved the cold to watch the bloated, despairing, opium-exhausted poet swerve violently off course.”
― Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

“De Quincey eagerly followed the newspaper reports of the events on the Ratcliffe Highway. Murder was an infrequent enough occurrence: only nine of the sixty-seven convicts executed in 1810 had been murderers; more common by far was theft and fraud.”
― Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey