“Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that.” PleasureClothingSelf Involved Book:Nightingale Wood Source: Nightingale Wood
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him…They sink lower - becoming interested in their own personalities and then in nothing but their own reputations.” ArtPoetryMusicMusicianArtistsPridefulSelf Involved Book:The Great Divorce Source: The Great Divorce