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Lorna Sage
8 quotes
“that he cares for nothing except what might commend itself to a virtuoso Pagan, and thinks only as men thought before Christianity awoke them to the consciousness of sin, of suffering, and of immortality.”
Lorna Sage (1943–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... she saw herself to be: a demystifier, a critical observer of social processes and systems, an outsider who could see through to the inside, a radical realist. Lessing's initial creative roots lie in this ...”
Lorna Sage (1943–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“cultivated the role of and/or witch, and — in the (1979) — rewrote the with pistol-toting Mother riding to the rescue at the last minute.”
Lorna Sage (1943–2001) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1st edition 1994; 78 pages)
“My grandfather was the subject of my best stories. ... He behaved fantastically badly. ... My grandfather was a priest of the Church of England in Wales ... He was, as it turned out, certainly a boozer, a womanizer — this I had always known about him ... He was also, interestingly enough, very much a sort of a disappointed writer ...”
Lorna Sage (1943–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Grandfather's skirts would flop in the wind along the path and I would hang on. He often found things to do in the , excuses for getting out of the (kicking the swollen door, cursing) and so long as he took me he couldn't get up to much. I was a sort of hobble; he was my minder and I was his. ... He was good at funerals, being gaunt and lined, marked with mortality. He had a scar down his hollow cheek too, which Grandma had done with the carving knife one of the many times he had come home pissed and incapable.”
Lorna Sage (1943–2001) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1st edition 2000 published by Fourth Estate)
“... never frequent enough to explain the amount of wine he got through ... Eventually the Church stopped his supply and after that the communicants got watered-down from Boots the chemist in , over the border.”
Lorna Sage (1943–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“life seemed a perpetual-motion machine, or an effect of gravity, something cyclic and unstoppable.”
Lorna Sage (1943–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 134 (2001 Fourth Estate)
“The only person who knew what was in the books was my mother's brother, Uncle Bill, and affected to despise them. He said that fiction was a waste of time, the opium of the bourgeoisie, that you had to get a real grip on the facts of life.”
Lorna Sage (1943–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 180 (2001 Fourth Estate)