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‘I myself find it hard to believe in a God who in every imaginable situation appears to favour the perpetrator and hamper the path of the righteous and the meek.’
“There was a magnificent legal staff, a mechanism such as is possessed by every state before its political, economic and moral collapse.”
― The Good Soldier Schweik
― The Good Soldier Schweik
“On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.”
― The Lady from Zagreb
― The Lady from Zagreb
“I said to myself – wait for me in hell, I’ll come to you.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
“I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it’s sharp as a nun on her second sherry.”
― The Devil
― The Devil
“Compared with the person who had decorated and furnished the place, the Archduke Ferdinand had been blessed with the taste of a troupe of Turkish circus dwarves.”
― Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
― Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
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