My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle Quotes

“Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.”
― Marcel Pagnol, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood

“Of course I had a handkerchief. It lay, clean as a whistle, in my pocket where it had been for a week. For I had the knack of extracting from my nostrils, with the nail of my forefinger, the snuffling substances that impeded my breathing, and the use of a handkerchief seemed to me a piece of parental superstition.”
― Marcel Pagnol, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood

“Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.”
― Marcel Pagnol, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood

“One also found there, in those days, a certain number of people learning to master bicycles. With fixed gaze and clenched jaws, they would suddenly bolt away from their teacher, shoot across the avenue, vanish into a thicket, and reappear with their machines round their necks.”
― Marcel Pagnol, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood

“This is not a very surprising story; but wait a minute; it's going to be.”
― Marcel Pagnol, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood

“I had caught my dear superman red-handed in the act of being human: I felt that I loved him even more for it.”
― Marcel Pagnol, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood