“This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: "I know just what you mean.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
“The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.”
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
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