Typewriter Beach Quotes

“than most imagine. People with good intentions who stand silent in fear for themselves allow a mob marching on the excuse of righteousness to trample everything in its path, and in the path of the leader whose purposes it serves.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach

“even U.S. borders closed during World War II without anyone admitting they were.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach

“He told himself that the leaders of the anti-communist witch hunts here in America had not yet reached the White House. President Eisenhower seemed a good man. He’d led the world to victory during the war and was now promoting a new civil rights act. But Vice President Nixon had made his career championing the red scare, and now a decade into it, fewer stood in its path than at the beginning. Leo couldn’t see how it would end.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach

“could turn quickly darker. A society set free of the bonds of civility to air its grievances devolves into a mob more rapidly”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach

“On the radio, they were now talking about Arthur Miller. The playwright had refused to name names a year earlier, saying he could not in good conscience bring trouble on people for what they might or might not have done a decade ago. Now a federal judge had ruled that he would have to stand trial for contempt. “The trial will draw even larger crowds than Lillian’s did,” Leo said.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach

“forgery by typewriter,” claiming documents he’d supposedly passed on to the Soviets weren’t typed on his typewriter but were instead forged to look like they had been.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach

“State Department employee and supposed communist spy Vice President Nixon had made his name bringing down, who was now charging the FBI with”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach

“had always been too bookish—some fool had written, along with, His football star brothers aren’t communists, they’re war heroes, lest anyone miss the point that people who read are dangerous, much better to stick to sports. Nobody went to that film.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach