Barry Unsworth 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.

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

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.