‘Success in the game is the great incentive to subdue fear. Once you’ve shot down two or three the effect is terrific and you’ll go on till you’re killed. It’s love of the sport rather than sense of duty that makes you go on without minding
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“Søte bløte stikkelsbær. Hvorfor vokser du på så sinte trær? Hvorfor kan du ikke neste vår, vokse på en eplegren? Sånn at jeg kan få plukket deg, uten å få stukket meg!”
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“It’s easy to forgive the summer rain; like first love, white lies or blarney, there’s no malignity in it.”
― The Spy Quartet: An Expensive Place to Die, Spy Story, Yesterday’s Spy, Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy
― The Spy Quartet: An Expensive Place to Die, Spy Story, Yesterday’s Spy, Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy
“I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information."
"And?"
"The most valuable?"
"People with information," I suggested.”
― The Ipcress File
"And?"
"The most valuable?"
"People with information," I suggested.”
― The Ipcress File
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
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