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“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
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“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.”
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“I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. ”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
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Phillippa’s 2025 Year in Books
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