Nicholas Mosley Quotes

Nicholas Mosley — British Novelist born on June 25, 1923,

Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet, MC FRSL, is an English novelist. He is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, an English politician known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists, and his first wife Lady Cynthia Mosley, a daughter of The 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary... (wikipedia)

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.