George Mackay Brown Quotes

• In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

  George Mackay Brown

  Scotland, People, Stories

  George Mackay Brown (1990). “George Mackay Brown: fiction - poetry - reviews : Stewart Conn, Tom Scott, Luis Ceruuda”

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• Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

  George Mackay Brown

  Men, Wind, Stories

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• Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

  George Mackay Brown

  Shadow, Gathering, Old Wisdom

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• The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness.

  George Mackay Brown

  Beer, Thinking, Two

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• As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy

  George Mackay Brown

  Boys, White, Water

  George Mackay Brown (1977). “Pictures in the cave”

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