Barry Unsworth

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#free-enterprise #money #money

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#materialism #money #satirical #success #money

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . . ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#god #morality #power #nature

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#condition #i #just #like #outsider

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#i #novelist

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#fiction #needs #perception #pressure #secret

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#figures #generation #grand #heroes #history

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dispute #doubt #ease #fact #ignorance

I'm unemployable in any other capacity. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#capacity #i #other

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#always #beginning #moment #particular #path