“Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
― Death in the Afternoon
― Death in the Afternoon
“He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.”
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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