Nineteen Seventy Four
David Peace
Top 10 Best Quotes
“My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.”
“Uncle Eric holding court, proud the only time he ever left Yorkshire was to kill Germans.”
“Leeds United had won but I didn’t care. I had lost.”
“It was raining so hard now that the whole city looked underwater. I wished to Christ it was, that the rain would drown the people and wash the place the fuck away.”
“I was miles and years away and then suddenly aware my hour was at hand, feeling all their eyes on me.”
“I sat down on the arm of my father's empty chair, thinking of sea-view flats in Brighton, of southern girls called Anna or Sophie, and of a misplaced sense of filial duty now half redundant.”
“The future, like the past, is written. It cannot be changed, but it can help to heal the wounds of the present.”
“The Byline Boy at last, brining more death to the house of the dead.”
“Never had the urge to deliver us from evil?” “No, never” “Devil triumphs when good men do nowt”
“If a man comes up to you in the street and asks you for an address, is he lost or is he interrogating you?”
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