“The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills.” — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
“The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel. — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom. — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
![“England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world. Despite our belief [that] we are a 'gentle' people we have, in reality, a cruel and callous streak in…” quote by Colin MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3fc/colin-macinnes-53584_baby_england-is-after-all-the-land-where-chil_450470.jpg)
