Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger Quotes

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 . . .

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

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.

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 make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.