Top 5 John Horne Burns Quotes

#1. She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.

John Horne Burns

#2. [T]he important thing was that each Saturday they must win games and put The Academy on the sporting pages. For that, after all, was the final index to the rating of an American school.

John Horne Burns

#3. The war had made him into a lone wolf, an introverted arrow that shot silent and solitary to his target for the moment. He'd become an opportunist of sensation and aesthetic.

John Horne Burns

#4. It takes time and tiredness and tension to hate a city.

John Horne Burns

#5. To be a good writer, one must be homosexual.

John Horne Burns

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