"We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeli..."
- Neil M. Gunn
"We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now... human dealings are f..."
"What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked."
"In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world."
"in a few moments he came into the core of himself, where he was alone, and felt strangely companioned, not by anyone or anything, but by himself. The rejected self found refuge here, not a cowed refug..."
"...an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel"