“For Dupigny a nation resembled a very primitive human being: this human being consisted of, simply, an appetite and some sort of mechanism for satisfying the appetite. In the case of a nation the appetite was usually, if not quite… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share
“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 satisfying the appetite. In the case of a nation the appetite was usually, if not quite invariably, economic … (now and again the national vanity which at intervals gripped nations like France and Britain would compel… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share
“For a day or two Fleury became quite active. He had his book about the advance of civilization in India to consider and this was one reason why he had taken an interest in the behaviour of the Collector. He asked a great number of questions and even bought a notebook to record pertinent information. "Why, if the Indian people… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share
“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
