Josephine Tey Quote
A man--Buck--wrote a vindication in the seventeenth-century, and Horace Walpole in the eighteenth, and someone named Markham in the nineteenth ... And who in the twentieth?No one that I know of.Then what's wrong with your doing it?But it wont' be the same, don't you see? It won't be a great discovery.He said it in capitals. A GREAT DISCOVERY.Grant smiled at him.Oh, come, you can't expect to pick GREAT DISCOVERIES off bushes. If you can't be a pioneer what's wrong with leading a crusade?A crusade?Certainly.Against what?Tonypandy.
Josephine Tey
A man--Buck--wrote a vindication in the seventeenth-century, and Horace Walpole in the eighteenth, and someone named Markham in the nineteenth ... And who in the twentieth?No one that I know of.Then what's wrong with your doing it?But it wont' be the same, don't you see? It won't be a great discovery.He said it in capitals. A GREAT DISCOVERY.Grant smiled at him.Oh, come, you can't expect to pick GREAT DISCOVERIES off bushes. If you can't be a pioneer what's wrong with leading a crusade?A crusade?Certainly.Against what?Tonypandy.
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