“The heart is a vital organ, but it is a faulty guide to conduct. It is the mind makes judgements and comparisons, furnishes evidence on which ideas of truth can be founded.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if they are… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share
“Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Those confiding their pain cannot know at the outset how much they will be required to relive it.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
