Quotes by Brigid Brophy

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• The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

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• To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

  ― Brigid Brophy
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• We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

  ― Brigid Brophy
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• Whenever people say we mustn't be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And, if they add, we must be realistic, they mean they are going to make money out of it.

  ― Brigid Brophy
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Subjects in these quotes:

• twentieth-century
• fascinating
• imperialist
• sentimental
• something
• realistic

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