“Ignominy thirsts for respect.”
“Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.”
“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.”
“Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.”
“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary gate-crashing of mine must be a sign of a wretched thirsting after immortality.”
“Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?”