Keith Roberts: Likeness

Keith Roberts was British writer and artist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“He like the Church he serves is blind and empty and vainglorious. This God they prattle on about, where’s His justice, where’s His compassion? Does it please Him to see dying people hounded in His name, does He snigger at His bumbling priests, is He satisfied when men drop dead chopping stone out for His temples, twisted little God dying tepid-faced on a cross…. She thought, I’ll go out and look for other gods, and maybe they’ll be better and anyway they can’t be worse.”

Keith Roberts book Pavane

Fourth measure “Lords and Ladies” (p. 169)
Pavane (1968)

“A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.”

Keith Roberts book Pavane

First measure “The Lady Margaret” (p. 17)
Pavane (1968)

“It’s a terrible thing, being afraid. It’s like an illness; like wanting to fall down, and not being able to faint. You see you never get used to it. You live with it and live with it and every day it’s worse; and one day it’s the worst of all. I thought, when it…happened, I wouldn’t be afraid. But I was wrong….”

Keith Roberts book Pavane

Sixth measure “Corfe Gate” (p. 260)
Pavane (1968)