"There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship."

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Source : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman and the Mountain of Light”, p.195, Penguin

George MacDonald Fraser

#Treachery Quotes #Statesmanship Quotes

“Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.”
“The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.”
“I'll stick to painting as long as I can.”
“I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and who controlled the dough. Party labels were merely a way to keep track of the teams; issues were mostly smoke and vaudeville. Nobody believed in anything except hanging on to power, whatever it took. .....”
“The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.”
“In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.”

Source : Sijie Dai (2002). “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Anchor
“Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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