"Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage."

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Dwight Garner

#Book Quotes #Class Quotes #Wings Quotes

“As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.”
“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK
“I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.”
“I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.”
“Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.”
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
“No one gives it to you. You have to take it.”
“Good design doesn't date.”

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