‘She grew up with her father who believed that Armageddon was just round the corner, his survival bag packed and ready by the front door every night during her childhood’ Charlotte Mullins on the painter Clare Woods
‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I am frightened of the old ones.’ John Cage
Memory is like an onion, the older layers the last to go.
Born in a leap year, today she is happily celebrating her 18th birthday. She is 72 years old. She feels life is all before her, knowing it’s all behind.
‘He always looked skywards when he was about to say ‘no’ to something, as if checking up to an invisible mezzanine for a ‘yes’ someone might have forgotten there.’ Youmna Melhem Chamieh
The trick, when crossing the road in Hanoi, is to avoid sudden movements or pauses.
‘The minute a chap’s wife dies, her friends, come crawling out of the woodwork with their casseroles and condolences, and snap him up before his spouse is cold in the grave.’ Deborah Moggachn
