Paul Christopher quotes

“Cynical is a fool's word for realist.”
-- Paul Christopher

Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.61, Penguin

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“Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.”
-- Paul Christopher

Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.87, Penguin

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“We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.”
-- Paul Christopher

Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.156, Penguin

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“We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.”
-- Paul Christopher

Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.59, Penguin

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“He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.”
-- Paul Christopher

Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.82, Penguin

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“Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.”

“Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.”

“Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.”

“Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.”

“Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.”

“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”

“An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.”

“There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.”

“A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.”

“I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.”