James

“am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“But now I’m beginning to care again—a little—and it hurts—it’s really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection

“He was not much of a nature-worshipper, but he perceived that nature here was certainly at her best and liveliest. He gave her, as it were, full marks and a nod of approval, feeling that she would do very nicely as a background to his satisfying emotions”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection

“It did not require a great deal of imagination to picture a world in which power had passed into the hands of Al Capones with their private bombing squadrons.”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection