“When you want to say what is in your heart you can’t say it because, as the words take shape in your head, you find yourself despising them as clichés.”
― The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
― The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
“Either women are our equals and don’t need special treatment, or they are fragile and require opportunities to be created for them, and quotas, and so forth. Feminists seem to be promoting a most confused and illogical ideology that is much more about making trouble than anything else. And of course, they aren’t good company, these people.”
― The Cutting Place
― The Cutting Place
“didn’t like London at all, finding it a cold place to live, inhabited by cold people.”
― The American Candidate
― The American Candidate
“Most great architecture is meant to impress the gods.”
― The Isaac Question: Templars and the Secret of the Old Testament
― The Isaac Question: Templars and the Secret of the Old Testament
“He remembers this and will never forget it, not even when he is an old, old man, dying in some impersonal nursing home, watched by impersonal mutes.”
― The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
― The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon
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