J. R. Ackerley - Quotations

Quotations

  • "If you look like a wild beast, you are expected to behave like one." (My Dog Tulip)
  • "To speak the truth, I think that people ought to be upset, and if I had a paper I would upset them all the time; I think that life is so important and, in its workings, so upsetting that nobody should be spared." (Letter to Stephen Spender, December 1955.)
  • "If there is good to be said of me, others must report that." (Notebook for My Father and Myself)
  • "'The fair sex? And which sex is that?'" (Captain Conrad to Mme. Louis in The Prisoners of War)

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