Colin MacInnes quotes
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“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 MacInnesSource : "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 MacInnesSource : 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 MacInnesSource : 1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.
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“In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.”
-- Colin MacInnesSource : 1961 England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.
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Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
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“I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106
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“A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.”
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