Argument Quote by Barry Unsworth

““The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.””

Barry Unsworth

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“A little bit of kindness goes a long way with women.”

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“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…

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“Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there…

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“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...”

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“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…

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“Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the…

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“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…

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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…

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“Those confiding their pain cannot know at the outset how much they will be required to relive it.”

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“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.”

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“When you in de right you heart strong you no 'fraid nottin'.”

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