To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.
It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.
In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.
My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness. . . It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.
What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.
Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature. . . . He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.