Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form of money, a walking investment. You can do what you like with him, you can work him to death or you can sell him. This cannot be called cruelty or greed because we are seeking only to recover our investment and that is a sacred duty.”
“Love does not stand still, as everyone knows; it is always adding to its own shape whether by advance or retreat. Wounds can be absorbed, but only like elements embodied in a story; they are always there, part of the meaning.”
“A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may die with this illusion still intact because no circumstance of his life has obliged him to revise it.”
“Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.”
“The kneading of memory makes the dough of fiction, which, as we know, can go on yeasting for ever...”
“Sometimes in storm weather the shore had fluttered with disabled swallows. They crouched lower for his approach, without strength to escape. In his hands they pulsed with that same pulse. He had taken a bird and warmed it between his hands or inside his jacket, brought the life back until it was able to fly. Sometimes, released from his hands, they circled once around him before flying away; in gratitude, or so the child had believed--and the belief had survived all the man's science.”
“Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.”
“But what a man sees still must depend on what he looks for. While I have eyes of my own, I shall not need to borrow yours.”
“There are no stronger fetters than those we forge for ourselves.”
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Book Keywords:
doubt, justice-vision, suffering, christianity, slavery, debt, hope, faith, growing-up, morality, capitalism, reason
