Quote of the Day | 0213
The sleazy aristocrats and the crooked politicians, the spies and the trimmers, seemed to taint the whole society. Jeffrey Archer’s books were stacked and sold everywhere, and they always seemed to me a visible sign of corruption. The horrible man wouldn’t shut up, wouldn’t go away. And though an apology from any of these creepy people might not have undone any of their crimes, it would have been something, a gesture. But in a society where “Sorry!” was almost a catchphrase, on most people’s lips, no one who should ever have said sorry did – not Wilson, nor Archer, nor Blunt, nor Major Ferguson, nor Bernie Grant, nor Gerry Adams, none of them.
Paul Theroux, ‘This Was England’
[x]#8266 fan zondag 13 februari 2011 @ 12:37:38
