Quotes by Mary Renault, The Charioteer

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There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare. — Mary Renault, The Charioteer
It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what — Mary Renault, The Charioteer
You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like t — Mary Renault, The Charioteer
It's only since it's been made impossible that it's been made so damn easy. It's got like prohibition, with bums and cro — Mary Renault, The Charioteer
After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away — Mary Renault, The Charioteer