She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.
“that thirty years of Israel have turned the Palestinians into the new Jews of the earth?”
― The Little Drummer Girl
― The Little Drummer Girl
“he was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he might cause others.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.”
― Laidlaw
― Laidlaw
“It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child?”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
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