Fall of Man in Wilmslow
David Lagercrantz
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.”
“To put it in somewhat drastic terms, Cambridge in the thirties was characterised by two things: a craze for communism and a craze for homosexuality. “Rubbish!” Farley said. “Well, you’re bound to have been busy with other things as well, like drunkenness, geometry and Shakespeare.”
“The sum of all vices does not remain constant. Each one breeds another.”
“People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.”
“I like stupid questions,” Rimmer said. “They allow one to feel intelligent for once.”
“Young people are meant to go off the rails politically, aren’t they? And there are certainly far worse things one can do than dream about equality.”
“You either have a useful contribution to make or you don’t, regardless of whether you’re head of the office or the emperor of China.”
“You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.”
“Where are you going?” Turing had asked. “Nowhere.” “Me too.”
“What is there left once you have lost your manliness?”
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