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penguin quotes

  • Would you rather live in lively London or where a young penguin lies screaming?

    - Gavin Buchanan Ewart
      Where aYoung Penguin Lies Screaming, epigraph.

  •   Need I go on? I hate to bite Hands that led me to the limelight In the Penguin book, I regret The awkwardness. But British, no, the name's not right. Yours truly, Seamus.

    - SeamusJustin Heaney
      'An Open Letter to Blake and  Andrew, Editors, Contemporary British Verse, Penguin Books, Middlesex'. Heaney was complaining at his inclusion in the book edited by Blake Morrison and  Andrew Motion on the grounds of his Irish nationality.

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