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No moralizing, please. If anyone wants to talk ethics, he’s happy to reply with statistics.
He’s watched so many films – no one realizes how much hit men owe to Hollywood scriptwriters.
‘Nobody lives long enough to know just how little interest anybody takes in anybody.’
Achieving success at the age of fifty is a little like finally being served the mustard when you’re on to dessert,
‘There are thirteen English people on this damn plane anyway. So long as she’s not Russian, Chinese, or French. And we’re going to be collaborating with the British services anyway.’
Nostalgia is a scoundrel. It allows us to believe life has some meaning. Victor sits down next to her, irresistibly drawn: it is characteristic of attraction to want to constantly reduce distances.
There’s a Jewish joke that says God often rereads the Torah to try to understand what’s going on in this world he created.
Religion is a carnivorous fish in the abyssal depths. It emits the feeblest of light and needs a vast darkness around it to attract its prey.
