“You know what Confucius said?” Aaron looked over, surprised. “ ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.’ ”
― The Accomplice
― The Accomplice
“A heart can break only so often until the spirit breaks with it.”
― Judgment in Berlin: A Spy Story
― Judgment in Berlin: A Spy Story
“The art of the pitch was to keep it clear, quick, with a good sense of suspense toward a climax, leading to a single conclusion. It had to be a story, in other words.”
― The Bullet Garden
― The Bullet Garden
“This was my first visit to Walt Disney’s Magical Money Maw, and I initially had a typically cynical Chicagoan’s reaction. This place was an amusement park posing as a Disney movie come to life, with college kids in big-headed cartoon-character costumes mingling like monsters among children whose reactions veered between disappointment and terror. Here, the creator (not God but the beaming mustached one on TV) served up turn-of-the-century childhood memories painted with a pastel brush, inviting visitors into a fanciful American past sprinkled with pixie dust to banish actual memories of an era awash in financial failures, railroad strikes, immigrant tenements, racist lynchings, and social protest, right and left.”
― The Big Bundle
― The Big Bundle
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