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“the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. “Intelligence services,” the man had said, “are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it’s dark.”
― Zoo Station
― Zoo Station
“I didn’t know you were interested in politics,’ I said. ‘I’m not,’ he said. ‘But isn’t that how Hitler got elected in the first place: too many people who didn’t give a shit who was running the country?”
― Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
― Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
“Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.”
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“There is an innocence in the very word "afternoon." Morning is for trains and business and hangovers, night is for love and burglary. The afternoon is the halcyon, the calm between earnestness and drama.”
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“I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.”
― A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
― A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
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