The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? - Brigid Brophy
- Brigid Brophy
The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonst… - Brigid Brophy
The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonst…
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to … - Brigid Brophy
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to …
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans. - Brigid Brophy
A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish… - Brigid Brophy
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish…
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. - Brigid Brophy
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. - Brigid Brophy
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the ba… - Brigid Brophy
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the ba…
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav… - Brigid Brophy
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav…
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