The Wicked Pavilion Quotes

“Once you have made up your mind to drop a person it is most inconsiderate of them not to come within dropping distance.”
― Dawn Powell, The Wicked Pavilion

“Many men have triumphantly exploited a minuscule talent through life only to ruin themselves by muffing their deaths. Missing their proper exit cues they have hung around like dreary guests at a party, repeating themselves until it is made clear to all how little they ever had to say.”
― Dawn Powell, The Wicked Pavilion

“In the great libraries professors studied ways of doing away with books; politicians proclaimed reading and writing unnecessary and therefore illegal, for the action of written words on the human brain might induce thought, a subversive process certain to incite rebellion at robot leadership. All the knowledge required for the soldier generation could be pumped in by loudspeaker; eyes must be saved for target practice, hands preserved for bayonets. Why allow an enemy bomb to blast our accumulated culture when we can do it ourselves by government process?”
― Dawn Powell, The Wicked Pavilion