The Indian Clerk Quotes

“Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_”
― David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk

“Milne, whom I will always think of as Russell's literary friend, editor of the Granta, young and quick and clever, is now, of course, famous for a series of books about a bear and a toy piglet and a donkey, books which I have read and from which, I am perfectly willing to admit, I have derived far more pleasure than I have from most of the so-called serious literature published in the last decades. (Give me Milne over Virginia Woolf any day!)”
― David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk

“Far from negating randomness, they confirm it. Hence 331, 3331, 33331, 333331, and 3333331 are prime, but 33333331 is not.”
― David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk