Interview with Clancy Brown http://mediamikes.com/2011/03/interview-with-clancy-brown/ (March 14, 2011)
“My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive—Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he is not very important. They give me information and they give their comrades gratification, but that's all; gloom, indignation, aspiration in plenty, and plenty of stains on the tablecloth and coal-dust in the mine—but no living beings to experience them.”
Letter 350, to John Lehmann, 21 December 1940
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
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As quoted in "Debt debate veers with Greek polls close" (UPI), 2 June 2012. http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2012/06/02/Debt-debate-veers-with-Greek-polls-close/UPI-30991338654675/
“There is work in plenty for all hands- officers and men.”
Excerpt from Atlantic Fleet Confidential Memorandum 2CM-41, sent on 24 March 1941. As quoted in History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume One: The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 (1948) by Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 52
“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics”
it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.
Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried, 1886
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Variant: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
In with the Out crowd: on the streets with Ukip's David Coburn http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/14565432.In_with_the_Out_crowd__on_the_streets_with_Ukip__39_s_David_Coburn/ (June 17, 2016)