Susan Howatch citations

Susan Howatch est écrivaine britannique.

✵ 14. juillet 1940

Susan Howatch: 36 citations 0 J'aime

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“Boredom on social occasions is an inescapable hazard for the over-educated”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
Contexte: Boredom on social occasions is an inescapable hazard for the over-educated, and for the over-ambitious it must be endured.

“Remember, everything passes, even the most unspeakable horrors”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
Contexte: Again, be patient. And have courage. Remember, everything passes, even the most unspeakable horrors.

“Distrust grows out of lies. Wrong-doing grows out of distrust. Tragedy grows out of wrong-doing.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 3: John
Contexte: Distrust grows out of lies. Wrong-doing grows out of distrust. Tragedy grows out of wrong-doing. But out of honesty grows love and love's so powerful, it'll be like a suit of armour, protecting Robert, protecting you.

“Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
Contexte: Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied, it anaesthesises them from the pain of their disordered second-rate lives [... ] If romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied then surely nostalgia is the opiate of the disillusioned, for those who see all their dreams come true and find themselves living in a nightmare.

“A rational disposition must necessarily preclude a romantic outlook in life”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
Contexte: A rational disposition must necessarily preclude a romantic outlook in life, and only the failures of this world can afford to dispense with a rational disposition.

“One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.”

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“More tears. Disgraceful. I was getting just like Kester, weeping at the drop of a hat, but of course I was Kester. I'd become him, and now there was just this other stranger who wrote me debonair notes and who sounded just like me.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 5: Harry

“Recovering from an ill-starred romance is, after all, to anyone of sufficient will-power and self-respect, purely an attitude of mind.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“He wasn't just being selfish, he was being realistic. Marriage would have been very difficult if not downright impossible.'
'Marriage is always very difficult if not downright impossible,' said my father.
'Oh Harry, for God's sake forget I mentioned the group therapy! Run off and listen to a string quartet!”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

“True doppelgä ngers should never meet face-to-face, you know.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 5: Harry

“But never mind, all the best heroines are beautiful orphans, abandoned to their fate, and the one thing that's certain about my situation is that I'm going to be a heroine when I grow up.'
'Can I be a hero?'
'Well, I suppose you can try. But you'll have to try very hard.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“… we have to be kind, we have to be charitable and we can't condemn people just because they get in a mess…even the best people can get into ghastly messes,…we must never judge other people too harshly because although they can make awful mistakes they can still be very nice people.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 4: Kester

“To be distracted is pardonable. To be incoherent is simply unobliging.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“There are standards of immorality as well as standards of morality, Robert. Make sure yours are high.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“Barbarity's everywhere, that's the truth of it. Absolutely anyone is capable of absolutely anything.'
'My dear Papa, I had no idea you were such a cynic!'
'That's not cynicism, that's honesty — as you well know, dealing with criminals as you do, seeing the human race continually at its worst.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“The one advantage of being childless is that one can choose one's children and so avoid the bizarre game of chance in which one passes one's best — or one's worst — genes to one's poor innocent offspring.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

“What a bloody jungle income tax is! It's a wonder we don't all go on strike and refuse to pay.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 5: Harry

“Kester wrote about people and since human nature doesn't change his observations hadn't dated.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

“I could always walk out on a husband. But I could never turn my back on a friend.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 2: Ginevra

“Little girls don't stay playmates. Little girls become big girls and big girls become sweethearts.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“Life's for living, not for mourning … Live in the present, not the past.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

“Christ, all you psychiatrists think about is sex — sex, sex, sex, sex, sex …”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

“One must be rational about such matters and being rational need not mean being cold.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“Man cannot live on charm alone, and an ambitious man cannot live on anything less than wealth, good social connections and substantial political influence.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“Death had won my three friends; Death had almost won me. But now I was the one who was going to win and I was going to win by outwitting Death over and over again … To compete with Death, as I had discovered in the mountains, was to know one was alive.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“The English don't have opinions about the Irish. They have prejudices.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“Redemption's just a word and as I'm not a Christian it means nothing to me.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

“Bloody men! sometimes I feel I hate them all.'
'Your God slipped up. She should have created just one sex, women, and arranged for reproduction by cloning.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

“Every woman needs a special friend of her own sex with whom she can 'have a haircombing' about everything from menstruation to male monsters, and Julie had become that kind of special friend.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 2: Ginevra

“But magic can't operate without a magician, and being a magician can beat a man to his knees.”

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Susan Howatch livre The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

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