"When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels."

-- Peter York

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“I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.”
“Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin
“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.”

Source : "Bangkok Tattoo". Book by John Burdett, 2006.
“I usually want to die or do nothing.”
“James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.”
“Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.”
“Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.”
“In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.”

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