"There are men to whom a marriage is eternal and who are crippled for ever when it ends, largely, I think, because of …"

"Once I wandered away from my brothers and sisters and went into a near-by field, and right out in the middle of it I …"

"Though blind chance took me to a newspaper office, I was happy there at once; and I have been happy in newspaper offi…"

"On one of those occasions, for a variety of subjects, I had won three pounds worth of books. It was in the happy days…"

"All these things were in the “front room.” We had all that fanatical devotion to the “front room” which is peculiar t…"

"In the long run, what do we have but our memories?"

"Unsatisfactory indeed the world seemed to Mr Menheniot. He was pushed about in bus queues; he was snapped at by café …"

"After I had eaten my evening meal I wandered out on to the beach where the tide was coming in sharply, a tumble of wh…"

"I wasn't an artist of any sort, but I thought I knew something about how artists' minds worked, and I didn't believe …"

"the self-contained life"