Quotes from Jean Ure

Why else do you think the world destroyed itself?' 'It was an accident!' 'Yes, and who caused the accident? Men!

I don't believe that dreams tell what is to come, I think they are the things that are going on in our subconscious swimming to the surface while we are asleep.)

It's all men's fault,' she said, 'anyway. It would never have happened if it had been left to women.' 'If it had been left to women we'd probably still be living in the Stone Age!

One had to be prepared for the thought that the world might actually be approaching Armageddon.

It is very difficult, when there are those people who want power over other people and will stop at nothing to get it: it is very difficult for all the people who don't want power, except just power over themselves, to find a way of resisting it.

You could never be sure, at any given moment, whether she was inhabiting her own private fantasy land—which she seemed to do most of the time—or whether she was on one of her flying visits to what passed for reality.

It's our job to look at the issues and elect people. Once we've done that, that's our part over with. It's not up to us to run the country.

I have discovered that writing is rather like talking: it is very difficult to start, but once you have actually got going it can also be very difficult to stop. The reason I don't want to stop is that I am scared of being on my own. At least when I'm writing this journal it's like conversing with someone.

She didn't want to be miserable; no one wanted to be miserable. There were times when you just couldn't help it.

Who needed excuses? It was each man for himself. It always had been, of course, that was the philosophy the world lived by; but now more so than ever.

I almost wish that anyone were here, so I could just talk about anything. I know Harry used to accuse me of being anti-social (because of my not liking parties and shutting myself away painting), but it is a very dreadful and isolating experience not to have exchanged one single word with another human being for as long as I have.

I keep thinking what a lot I missed out on through being so introverted. I am not referring to sex but all the other things. Being sociable, I suppose.)

They were people—having fun.' 'They'd have had fun with us if they'd've caught us

It is true, I do expect bad things rather than good, and even when they are good I worry about when they will stop being good.

His view of human nature is more jaundiced (I think that is the word) than mine.

Talking was such an embarrassment; she never knew what to say.

Human beings stopped living in a state of nature as soon as they evolved into human beings. We've always tinkered and tampered.

Second-hand porn from the looks of it. But any porn in a storm, he thought.

There was a world out there, if only he had the courage to go and look for it.

If you have the spirit in you, then you must go where it takes you

Almost as if—as if he regretted that they were civilised. As if he knew that they had to be, but wished it wasn't necessary. Or that there was some other way.

Old people needn't think they deserved respect just because they were old.

you've either got a brain or you haven't. If you have, then you don't need me to spell things out to you. If you haven't, there's no point in talking to you.

There are black people in Brixton!' Fran's face grew crimson. Shahid said, 'What's the matter with black people?' 'They'll beat us up!' 'Oh,' said Shahid. 'Really?' Fran, looking uncomfortable, said, 'Don't be silly, Harry! That was race riots, years ago.' 'I don't care! I don't like it. I'm not going there.