Adam Nicolson

Quotes

• “We are wanderers, place shifters, the cosmic homeless. This is not a modern truth, and Achilles is not some new kind of ...”
• “Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted bu...”
• “t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide ...”
• “The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are ...”
• “The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.”