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“He had spent much of his childhood perched on the coast, with the taste of salt in the air: this was a place of woodland and river, mysterious and secretive in a different way from St. Mawes, the l...”
“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
“[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.”
“It is important to demonstrate to the unfree world that one of the privileges of democracies is to enjoy freedom of travel and intercourse and the exchange of knowledge and ideas. [Gerald Barry, fr...”
“She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night.”
“In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impo...”
“Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.”
“One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.”
“I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, ...”
“That day -- Monday, 25 February 1980 -- unfolded, in the context of British politics, much like any other day. Government, in those days, happened rather like a tree falling in a forest when there ...”
“The principle victims of British policies are Unpeoplethose whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain. They are the modern equivalent of the savages o...”
“She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet "shhhh," as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absorbed and deafened by slow, steady wistfulness, and I suddenly understood that ...”
“He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they...”
“How do you know she had sex? Dallas asks.Every time a penis touches Britain, I receive a telepathic notification.Oh, Dallas says with a straight face. Well that explains a lot.”
“But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence...”
“The other day I happened to be reading a careful, interesting account of the state of British higher education. The government is a kind of market-oriented government and they came out with an offi...”
“Upstairs on a bus! Its Unbelievable”
“The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!”
“When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.”
“Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the notion that the Muslims were a distinct political com...”
