Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.
As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what this old world needs is just the art of being kind? Every time I visit a factory or any other large business concern, I find myself trying to diagnose whether the atmosphere is one of kindliness or the reverse. And somehow, if there is palpably lacking that spirit of kindness, the owners. . . have fallen short of achieving 24-carat success no matter how imposing the financial balance sheet may be.
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
