Post brief quotes from fiction/narrative/whatever
Yeah, so I was reading *Daniel Deronda* by the notoriously ugly George Eliot (according to Virginia Woolf and Henry James). James was not far off when, I think he applied the words "loose baggy monsters" to Eliot's novels. And he was such a bitchy old queen (yeah, I know, talk to Leon Edel if you want to get him all pissed off, but there's just no way) he had to call her horse-faced.
I like her, though, and I think it would be fun to mount the heroine Gwendolen Harleth, in a fictional way.
So, yeah, Eliot is really quotable.
Quote:
For I suppose that the set of the head does not really determine the hunger of the inner self for supremacy: it only makes a difference sometimes as to the way in which the supremacy is attainable, and a little also to the degree in which it can be attained; especially when the hungry one is a girl, whose passion for doing what is remarkable has an ideal limit in consistency with the highest breeding and perfect freedom from the sordid need of income.
Crazy bitch. Love it.