“She looked great in tight jeans and short skirts, she looked great in anything or nothing, really, but for the moment she wanted no one to notice her.”
― The Runaway Jury
― The Runaway Jury
“There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land . . . it surprised me . . . I thought I had forgotten about this land. But I hadn’t. . . . Maybe Afghanistan hadn’t forgotten me either.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.”
― I Am Pilgrim
― I Am Pilgrim
“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting but never joining. In short, an outsider.”
― The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
― The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
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