"Keep the Aspidistra Flying" Quotes
"Keep the Aspidistra Flying" follows Gordon Comstock's rebellious struggle against the oppressive demands of capitalist society and his pursuit of artistic integrity over material success.
fiction | 327 pages | Published in 2022
Quotes
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money—or the lack of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
As always happens in the spike, I had at last managed to fall comfortably asleep when it was time to get up.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.
Everything had sucked, even life itself.
The obvious thing to do was to get out of this stuffy room and into the open air. It was May, but the weather had suddenly turned cold again.
Nothing so invigorating as fresh air and exercise when you can get them.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him — or into the air all round him.
The world would always be ruled by Philip Reades.
Squalor and snobbery have their romantic allure, but the working-class ideal, as I see it, is really not so far from the bourgeois ideal—except, of course, in capital funds.
