William McIlvanney Quotes

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  • Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

    Funny   Humor   Thinking  
    William McIlvanney (2013). “Laidlaw”, Canongate Books
  • Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.

    Honesty   Dark   Law  
    William McIlvanney (2013). “Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)”, p.157, Canongate Books
  • Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.

    Men   Missing   Important  
  • Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

    Writing   Humanity   Way  
  • Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

    Lying   Needs   Good Lies  
  • There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

    1985 The BigMan, ch.1.
  • That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.

    Nice   Ideas   Facts  
    1985 The BigMan, ch.8.
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