Eric Linklater Quotes

• Wanting to know an author because you like his books is like wanting to know a goose because you like pate.

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• I dislike burdens…and at my back I often hear Time’s winged chariot changing gear.

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• There won’t be any revolution in America… The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing their shorts and washing themselves. You can’t feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

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• She looks like a million dollars, but she only knows a hundred and twenty words and she’s only got two ideas in her head. The other one’s hats.

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• It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

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• With a heavy step Sir Matthew left the room and spent the morning designing mausoleums for his enemies.

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• Authors and uncaptured criminals…are the only people free from routine.

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• All I’ve got against it is that it takes you so far from the club house.

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• All I’ve got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

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Eric Linklater (9)

Birth:	8th March, 1899
Death:	7th November, 1974
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Eric Robert Russell Linklater was born in  Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. He was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book. He also wrote two children’s novels, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea and Karina With Love. Although his greatest success came in the early years of that career, he was to publish 23 novels, three volumes of stories, two books of verse, ten plays, three works of autobiography, and another 23 books of essays and histories.

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