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“You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.”
Alec Waugh
“Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy.”
Alec Waugh
“In the last analysis the great patriots were those who identified personal ambition with the welfare of their country. The traitor, as often as not, was one who, failing to recognize where the true interests of his country lay, identified his personal ambition with the less noble aspirations of his people.”
Alec Waugh, Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set in the West
“To the athlete, all things are forgiven”
Alec Waugh
“. . . in a crisis a man learnt what was real to him and what was unreal; that he became himself, choosing what he really needed.”
Alec Waugh, Wheels within Wheels: A Story of the Girls

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