Light in August
Important Quotations Explained
1. ‘It is
because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than
he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble
he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.’
2. Memory
believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects,
longer than knowing even wonders.
3. Perhaps
he realised that he could not escape. Anyway, he stayed, watching
the two creatures that struggled in the one body like two moon-gleamed
shapes.
4. [H]e believed
with calm paradox that he was the volitionless servant of the fatality
in which he believed that he did not believe. He was saying to himself I
had to do it already in the past tense; I had to
do it. She said so herself
5. “I mind
how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the
same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it’s the good men that
cant deny the bill when it comes around. . . . The bad men can deny
it; that’s why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other
time. . . . Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for
being bad.”
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