#p

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#aware #english #flat #how #i

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#always #been #general #how #i

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#call #city #close #come #contempt

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#get #idea #intrigued #listen #lives

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#cheaper #coal #colombia #down #draw

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#about #back #book #california #class

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#between #class #england #huge #north

Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#continue #every #hispanic #issue #oppose

What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#different #different way #done #fascinating #passage

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#financial #give #give me #i #me