Colin MacInnes quotes

“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

Source : "Out of the way: later essays".

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

Source : Colin MacInnes (1969). “The London novels: City of spades. Absolute beginners. Mr. Love and Justice”

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

Source : 1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.

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

Source : 1961 England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

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“I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.”

“I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand”

“The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.”

“Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.”

“I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.”

“O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem! With dazzling pomp descending angels sung Good will and peace to men, to God due praise, Who on the errand of salvation sent Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”

“The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.”

“I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106

“A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.”