"Scoop" Quotes
A hapless journalist gets caught up in a farcical and absurd series of events while covering a war in Ishmaelia.
fiction | 222 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world... On the whole the English are more cheerful and tolerant, less snobbish, than the Northerners.
The seven day week, with the same old names for the days, and the same astronomical nonsense for the month, was real and actual. And the night, with all its magic and terror, was my own property.
I don't know what the next life will be like, but I am quite sure it will be more beautiful for the fact that you have lived in it.
I don't think I shall ever forgive my cousin for coming out here to dig up the family scandal and make himself a name as a novelist.
To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
The English are very bad at telling lies... except to themselves.
I was haunted by the idea that I was in some way, physically and actually, in contact with the past.
The English are all about sex. They're always either doing it or talking about it.
