William Sansom Quotes

• A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

  William Sansom

  Lying, Writing, Evil

  Blue Skies, Brown Studies (1961) "From a Writer's Notebook"

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• A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

  William Sansom

  Class, Want, Status Symbol

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• London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

  William Sansom

  Hate, London, Habit

  William Sansom (1961). “Blue Skies, Brown Studies”

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• A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

  William Sansom

  Astonishment, States

  'Blue Skies, Brown Studies' (1961) 'From a Writer's Notebook'

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