I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.
I still fall for your everyday.
You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-obje ct look.
I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.