Eric Ambler quotes
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“Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Eric Ambler (2012). “This Gun for Hire”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Eric Ambler (1992). “A Coffin for Dimitrios/Judgement on Deltchev/Passage of Arms: Three Complete Novels in One Volume”, Galahad Books
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“Reality is always so obstructive.”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Eric Ambler (2008). “Epitaph for a Spy”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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“Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Eric Ambler (2008). “Epitaph for a Spy”, p.110, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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“In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Eric Ambler (2011). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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“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?”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Eric Ambler (2009). “The mask of Dimitrios”, Penguin Classics
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“International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Eric Ambler (2001). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, Vintage
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“For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.”
-- Eric AmblerSource : Eric Ambler (2001). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, Vintage
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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