Colin MacInnes Quotes

• England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

  Colin MacInnes

  Football, Baby, Sweet

  "Out of the way: later essays".

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• In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

  Colin MacInnes

  Art, England, Pops

  1961 England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

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• Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

  Colin MacInnes

  Wheels, Tradition, Mills

  1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.

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• It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

  Colin MacInnes

  Teenage, Epic, London

  Colin MacInnes (1969). “The London novels: City of spades. Absolute beginners. Mr. Love and Justice”

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