Paul Scott (novelist) Quotes

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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Paul Scott

In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.

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I wish the rain wouldn't look so much like a short story by Maugham. Nobody else has a chance to do anything literary with that man's shadow haunting the scene.

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The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we're half dead trying to get a paragraph right.

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Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

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I think my future largely depends now on what happens to my mammoth novel (about the Indian rebellion of 1942).

Paul Scott

Paul Scott

Paul Scott

Born: March 25, 1920

Died: March 1, 1978 (aged 57)

Bio: Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy The Raj Quartet. His novel Staying On won the Booker Prize for 1977.

Known for:

The Jewel in the Crown (1966)
Staying On (1977)
The Day of the Scorpion (1968)
The Towers of Silence (1971)
A Division of the Spoils (1975)

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