“Incidentally, I do not agree with you when you speak of Indian independence having become a foregone conclusion. Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist. Certain steps might be taken to help… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“a repository sounds like a place for storing furniture when you bash off to some other station. I suppose an Englishman could say that… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city itself (where… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
