Neil M. Gunn Quotes

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.

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 feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.

...an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

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 founded - founded - not on money but on what is fair and just all round.

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 refuge, but somehow a wandering ease; as if it were indestructible, and had its own final pride, its own secret eyes.