Source: The Shock of the New (1981), p. 92
A driver upon being asked if he believed in God.
The Children of Men (1992)
“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
About his book, The Sun Also Rises in a letter (21 August 1926); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Source: V. (1963), Chapter Seven, Part I
Context: Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof, or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which had come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by the funny-looking automobiles of the '30's, the curious fashions of the '20's, the particular moral habits of our grandparents. We produce and attend musical comedies about them and are conned into a false memory, a phony nostalgia about what they were. We are accordingly lost to any sense of continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see.
“Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.”
Source: Again the Magic
“He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.”
Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 25 (p. 187)
“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But - why did you kick me downstairs?”
An Expostulation (1789).
“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But—why did you kick me down stairs?”
The Panel, Act i, Scene 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Altered from Isaac Bickerstaff's "'T is Well 't is no Worse"; also found in Debrett's "Asylum for Fugitive Pieces", vol. i., p. 15.
