“explained that the Committee for International Understanding, with Europe crumbling about it, had closed down in 1940, naturally dismayed by the amount of misunderstanding the outbreak of war entailed.” — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“if you were adventurous, scoop out the fragrant, heavenly, alarming flesh of the durian.” — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“And everyone would climb the stairs chuckling to their rooms and dream of aces and knaves and a supply of trumps that would last… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“For Dupigny a nation resembled a very primitive human being: this human being consisted of, simply, an appetite and some sort of mechanism for… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“For a day or two Fleury became quite active. He had his book about the advance of civilization in India to consider and this… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“What an advantage that knowledge can be stored in books! The knowledge lies there like hermetically sealed provisions waiting for the day when you… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us…but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?” — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“It is distressing to have to act under the impulsive orders of someone who, in a situation which concerns you deeply, does not know… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.” — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Walter, overhearing this, frowned at Dupigny, not because he disbelieved this story, but to indicate that he should speak guardedly in front of the… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“It seems that’s there a ghastly Darwinian principle of economics known as the Law of Substitution which declares, more or less, that “the cheapest… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that the boatman who rowed King William back across the river after the Battle of the Boyne is supposed to have… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
