People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

J.L. Carr
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People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

J.L. Carr
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Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.

J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
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If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.

J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
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And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.

J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
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