George Mackay Brown quotes
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“Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.”
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“As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy”
-- George Mackay BrownSource : George Mackay Brown (1977). “Pictures in the cave”
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“Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.”
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“In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.”
-- George Mackay BrownSource : George Mackay Brown (1990). “George Mackay Brown: fiction - poetry - reviews : Stewart Conn, Tom Scott, Luis Ceruuda”
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“The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness.”
-- George Mackay Brown
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation
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“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”
Source : "A comforting way of death" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.
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Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.
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