Eric Linklater Quotes

• 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

  Wall, Ordinary, Ears

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

  Eric Linklater

  America, People, Insulting

  'Juan in America' (1931) bk. 5, pt. 3

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

  Eric Linklater

  Golf, Golfers, Golfing

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• For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

  Eric Linklater

  Science, Acquisition, Routine

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