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> [“she felt there was between them an unexpected mutual confidence, confidence of the kind that could spring up between two strangers who found themselves thrown together quite fortuitously in difficult circumstances that might turn out to be either frightening or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/she-felt-there-was-between-them-an-unexpected-mutual-confidence/)

[Paul Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-scott/)

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## More by Paul Scott

> [“She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/she-had-devoted-her-life-in-a-practical-and-unimportant-way-trying-to/)

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> [“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/unfortunately-there-is-always-an-unmapped-area-of-dangerous/)

[Paul Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-scott/)

> [“a repository sounds like a place for storing furniture when you bash off to some other station. I suppose an Englishman could say that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/a-repository-sounds-like-a-place-for-storing-furniture-when-you-bash/)

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> [“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/riot-squads-were-ready-to-go-into-action-although-these-young-english/)

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> [“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/there-are-images-that-stay-vividly-in-your-mind-even-after-many-years/)

[Paul Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-scott/)

> [“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/there-s-a-difference-between-trying-to-stop-an-injustice-and/)

[Paul Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-scott/)

> [“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/she-did-not-divide-conduct-into-parts-she-was-attempting-always-a/)

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> [English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/english-is-the-language-of-a-people-ho-have-probably-earned-their/)

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> [“I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/i-had-that-sensation-which-sometimes-comes-to-us-all-of-returning-to/)

[Paul Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-scott/)

> [“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city itself (where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/but-it-is-not-these-things-which-most-impress-the-stranger-on-his/)

[Paul Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-scott/)

> [“wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/wily-minds-and-cold-hearts-were-the-combination-bronowsky-found-most/)

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> [“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/well-life-is-not-just-a-business-of-standing-on-dry-land-and/)

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> [“There is too much emotion in our own public life. The English could never be accused of that. They lock us up, release us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/there-is-too-much-emotion-in-our-own-public-life-the-english-could/)

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> [“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/the-exercise-of-authority-was-not-an-easy-business-especially-if/)

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> [“Such a marvelous opportunity wasted. I mean for us, by us. Indians feel it too, don’t they? I mean, in spite of the proud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-scott/such-a-marvelous-opportunity-wasted-i-mean-for-us-by-us-indians-feel/)

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