Colin MacInnes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world. Despite our belief [that] we are a 'gentle' people we have, in reality, a cruel and callous streak in our sweet natures, reinforced by a decadent puritan strain which makes some of us believe that suffering, whether useful or not, is a fit scourge to the wanton soul.”
-- Colin MacInnes

#Football #Baby #Sweet
“It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.”
-- Colin MacInnes

#Teenage #Epic #London
“Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.”
-- Colin MacInnes

#Wheels #Tradition #Mills
“In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.”
-- Colin MacInnes

#Art #England #Pops

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