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Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes
“In the end, both extremes had more in common with each other than either did with the middle.”
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 24 (p. 470)
“Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.”
Book II: The City, Ch. VI
Casuals of the Sea (1916)
Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 1 : Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
Context: The island of Utopia is in the middle two hundred miles broad, and holds almost at the same breadth over a great part of it, but it grows narrower towards both ends. Its figure is not unlike a crescent. Between its horns the sea comes in eleven miles broad, and spreads itself into a great bay, which is environed with land to the compass of about five hundred miles, and is well secured from winds. In this bay there is no great current; the whole coast is, as it were, one continued harbour, which gives all that live in the island great convenience for mutual commerce. But the entry into the bay, occasioned by rocks on the one hand and shallows on the other, is very dangerous. In the middle of it there is one single rock which appears above water, and may, therefore, easily be avoided; and on the top of it there is a tower, in which a garrison is kept; the other rocks lie under water, and are very dangerous. The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
Republican Party Reptile (1987)
"Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties." Black Popular Culture, ed. Gina Dent (Seattle, Wash: Bay Press, 1992), 324.
“A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.”
Lini
(15 October 1994)
“A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story”