“People like me who have never suffered—I mean in the way the people of Korytów and all the other millions of Poles are suffering—can afford to be broad-minded. You and the people who have really suffered must think people like me are not only smug, but callous.” “Only if you tell us that it is wrong to hate,”
― While Still We Live
― While Still We Live
“you’re certain, then, that no human affection can outlast a five-year absence?” “It can, undoubtedly,” replied the Chinese, “but only as a fragrance whose melancholy we may enjoy.”
― Lost Horizon: A Novel of Shangri-La
― Lost Horizon: A Novel of Shangri-La
“It did not require a great deal of imagination to picture a world in which power had passed into the hands of Al Capones with their private bombing squadrons.”
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
“Seeing my Camry next to Benny’s Jaguar gave me a pleasantly smug feeling of superiority. It probably did the same for him. “Let’s”
― A Cold and Broken Hallelujah
― A Cold and Broken Hallelujah
“am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.”
― While Still We Live
― While Still We Live
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