"A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?"

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Source : Eric Ambler (2009). “The mask of Dimitrios”, Penguin Classics

Eric Ambler

#Promise Quotes #Spy Quotes #Might Quotes

“Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.”
“We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.”
“Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.”
“Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .”
“What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”
“The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.”
“I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.”
“I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.”

Source : Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

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