PAGE 14 ‘APRIL ISTHE CRUELEST MONTH, BREEDING LILACS OUT OF DEAD LAND, MIXING MEMORY AND DESIRE, STIRRING DULL ROOTSWITH SPRING RAIN.’
—T. S. Eliot
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CHRIS SHARP
PAGE 24 ‘THAT MAN IS LITTLE TO BE ENVIED WHOSE PATRIOTISM WOULD NOT GAIN FORCE UPON THE PLAIN OF MARATHON, OR WHOSE PIETY WOULD NOT GROW WARMER AMONG THE RUINS OF IONA.’
— Samuel Johnson
PAGE 30 ‘Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.’
—Clive Barnes
PAGE 19 ‘I THINK I MAY BOAST MYSELF TO BE, WITH ALL POSSIBLE VANITY, THE MOST UNLEARNED AND UNINFORMED FEMALE WHO EVER DARED TO BE AN AUTHORESS.’
— Jane Austen
PAGE 54 ‘You enterprised a railroad… you blasted its rocks away …And now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.’
— John Ruskin
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