...but the air's flat and stale and the people.... : Quote by Eric Linklater

“ ...but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that. ”

Eric Linklater
  • From : Magnus Merriman
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