Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Julian Barnes on the French and English...


In public life, the French are just as hypocritical as we [Brits] are; the difference would seem to be that their hypocrisy pays lip-service to idealism, whereas ours pays lip-service to pragmatism.” Julian Barnes, Something to Declare, Vintage International Edition, 2003, p. xvii.

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