One Is Not Struck By The Truth

Screenplays I Didn't Really Care About, Journalism, Travel Books, Getting My Writer Friends To Write About Their Dreams Or Something. I Just Determined To Write The Books I Had To Write.

If You Were A Boy And A Girl And You Were In Love With Each Other, Really, Properly In Love, And If You Could Show It, Then The People Who Run Hailsham, They Sorted It Out For You. They Sorted It Out So You Could Have A Few Years Together Before You Began Your Donations.

And I'm A Hailsham Student - Which Is Enough By Itself Sometimes To Get People's Backs Up.

A Man Who Aspires To Rise Above The Mediocre, To Be Something More Than The Ordinary, Surely Deserves Admiration, Even If He Fails And Loses A Fortune On Account Of His Ambitions (...) If One Has Failed Only Where Others Have Not Had The Courage Or Will To Try, There Is Consolation - Indeed, Deep Satisfaction - To Be Gained From His Observation When Looking Back Over One's Life. #page No.134

But Then, I Suppose, When With The Benefit Of Hindsight One Begins To Search One's Past For Such 'turning Points', One Is Apt To Start Seeing Them Everywhere.