North Face of Soho Quotes

“If it feels like a mistake before you go in, don’t go in. Even when working with a whole heart, you are bound to have the occasional failure, and sometimes the whole heart will be the reason: caring too much can make you try too hard, and what should have sung will merely simper. But to work with half a heart means failure every time, and the results will scream the place down.”
― Clive James, North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs

“even today, when I have a cold, it is the worst cold in the history of the house.”
― Clive James, North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs

“Chesterton once said, on the subject of innate human dignity, that it all depended on the presence of the holy spirit, and that it was otherwise hard to take the human body seriously, belonging as it did to a creature that nourished itself by pushing food into a hole at the bottom of its face.”
― Clive James, North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs