Brian Freemantle Goodbye to an Old Friend

Only Maureen knows what I mean by ‘friend’.

So this is her book.

Cowards have small possibilities.

Fame is not won through silence

and cowards

out of caution

Are at times obliged to show courage.

Thus adders hustle to be hawks:

sensing the way the wind is blowing,

they adapt themselves to courage

just as they had adapted themselves to lies.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, ‘Cowards

Have Small Possibilities’, 1959.


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