One-Liner Wednesday: Not For Sharing
“One hungry man has no need of another to keep him company” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 15 July 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: Dying Is Such A Bore
“If i wait too long, I may be dead before they elect me. That really would be unpleasant” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 8 July 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: The End Justifies The Means
“What matters the bottle so long as one gets drunk” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 1 July 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: Things can only get…er, worse
“It is not in the first hour of a storm that the waves are highest” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 24 June 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: Just another day…
“I had discovered the illusion that lies in our thinking that certain solemn holidays differ essentially from the other days in the calendar” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 17 June 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: Tarred With The Same Brush
‘There are far fewer ideas than men, therefore all men with similar ideas are alike” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 10 June 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: Fake News (Again)
“Our cruellest adversaries are not those who contradict and try to convince us, but those who magnify or invent reports which may make us unhappy” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 3 June 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: Will this do?
“The people who refuse us the objects of our desire are always ready to offer us something else” – Proust: ‘Within A Budding Grove’ (À L’ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 27 May 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: A nice walk spoiled
“Golf gives one a taste for solitary pleasures” – Proust: ‘Within A Budding Grove’ (À L’ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 20 May 2020
One-Liner Wednesday: Old dogs, new tricks
“In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but youth was the only time in which we learned anything.” – Proust: ‘Within A Budding Grove’ (À L’ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner…
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