We Must Use Words As They Are

It Is Better To Be Drunk With Loss And To Beat The Ground, Than To Let The Deeper Things Gradually Escape.

We Must Use Words As They Are Used, Or Stand Aside From Life.

[on Writing:] What A Difficult Kind Of Work To Choose! But Of Course One Did Not Choose It. There Was No Choice.

Anyone Who Picks Up A Compton-burnett Finds It Very Hard Not To Put It Down.

I Never Know Why Self-sacrifice Is Noble. Why Is It Better To Sacrifice Oneself Than Someone Else?