Cooper quotes

It comes as a great shock around the age of five, six or seven to discover that the flag to which you have pledged yourallegiance, along with everybodyelse, has not pledged its allegiance to you. It comes as a shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

-James Arthur Baldwin
  Speech at Cambridge Union,17 Feb, arguing for the motion that 'The  American Dream is at the expense of the  American Negro'.

The modern novel has been many things, and functioned at many levels. It would keep D.H. Lawrence poor, and make Jilly Cooper and Jeffrey Archer rich.

- Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
  The Modern British Novel, preface.