Eric Linklater Quotes & Sayings

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears. — Eric Linklater

But the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that. — Eric Linklater

But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike. — Eric Linklater

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse. — Eric Linklater

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth. — Eric Linklater

There won't be any revolution in America ... The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom. — Eric Linklater