Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Strange or desperate



It’s been my experience that however strange or desperate the plight you may find yourself in, if there’s nothing else for it, you just get on with the business in hand as though it was the most natural thing in the world.

Flashman's Lady, p.233, Pan edition, 1979.



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Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Considerable and varied



My experience with women has been, I dare say, considerable and varied; I’ve had them fighting to get at me and running for dear life to escape, all ages, shapes and colours, in beds, haylofts, thickets, drawing rooms, palaces, hovels, snowdrifts (that was in Russia, in the cold spell), baths, billiard rooms, cellars, camps, covered wagons, and even in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which is probably a record of some sort. I’ve sometimes regretted that the flying machine was invented so late in my life, but things move so fast nowadays it’s difficult to keep pace.



Flash For Freedom!, p.186, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.




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