"One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel."

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Source : "Sold, for two truckloads of oranges" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

James Buchan

#Novelists Quotes #Stories Quotes #Scruples Quotes

“Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.”

Source : 1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.1.
“I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.”
“But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey, is the map for those who will follow.”
“There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, I disagree. We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect President.”

Source : "What is Patriotism?". www.thenation.com. July 15, 1991.
“I've learned a few things from the tea party, both the political one and the one in Alice in Wonderland. From the first, I learned that you can make people angrily shuffle in roughly the same direction if you appeal to their beliefs in poorly defined ways. From the second, I learned that England has some sort of substance called treacle.”
“You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.”
“I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.”

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