Handel Richardson Quotes

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After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.
Henry Handel Richardson (The Getting of Wisdom)
The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child
Henry Handel Richardson
Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.
Henry Handel Richardson (The Getting of Wisdom)
She could not then know that, even for the squarest peg, the right hole may ultimately be found
Henry Handel Richardson (The Getting of Wisdom)
For out of it all rose the vague, crude picture of woman as the prey of man. Man was animal, a composite of lust and cruelty, with no aim but that of brutally taking his pleasure: something monstrous, yet to be adored; annihilating, yet to be sought after; something to flee and, at the same time, to entice, with every art at one's disposal.
Henry Handel Richardson
The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth
Henry Handel Richardson
Laura tried her utmost, with an industry born of despair.
Henry Handel Richardson (The Getting of Wisdom)
The next stage is a hornfels, a thoroughly recrystallized rock, so named after its supposed resemblance to animal horn. Hornfels has one rather unexpected quality—when suitably shaped, it can produce beautiful musical notes when struck. Indeed, it took central place in an extraordinary narrative of the English Lake District. An eccentric 18th-century inventor, Peter Crosthwaite—a fighter against Malay pirates in his youth and, later in life, the founder of a museum in the town of Keswick—built a kind of xylophone using hornfels from the local Skiddaw mountain. Half a century later, the Keswick stone-maker and musician Joseph Richardson determined to top Crosthwaite’s achievement, and almost ruined his family financially by building an even bigger instrument, which would produce a larger range of musical notes. Once built, though, it was indeed a sensation. Richardson toured England for three years with his sons, playing Handel, Mozart, and dance tunes on his rock creation—though at times restraining the power of the instrument so it would not shatter concert hall windows. Queen Victoria liked the performances so much that she requested extra concerts (although reports from the time do suggest that she was not amused at its imitation of Alpine bells). The harmonious hornfels ‘lithophones’ may still be seen in the Keswick museum—and are to this day occasionally taken on musical tour.
Jan Zalasiewicz (Rocks: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions))
Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.
Henry Handel Richardson