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> [“The conversation can be serious, too, taking on the form of a grave philosophical discourse as the characters take turns to expound their views of life. When Joe finally comes face to face with his elusive prey, Stern, the chit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/the-conversation-can-be-serious-too-taking-on-the-form-of-a-grave/)

[Edward Whittemore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-whittemore/)

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## More by Edward Whittemore

> [“This heady mixture of the philosophical and the dramatic runs throughout the book, the one underlying the other, and the result, unlikely though it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/this-heady-mixture-of-the-philosophical-and-the-dramatic-runs/)

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> [“Like many authors belonging to that large and unfortunate caste, “the unjustly neglected”, Whittemore suffers from being an embarrassingly good read. He also suffers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/like-many-authors-belonging-to-that-large-and-unfortunate-caste-the/)

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> [“Once again, Whittemore escapes what might be a fatal mistake in another author. Far from the funhouse hall of mirrors one might expect from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/once-again-whittemore-escapes-what-might-be-a-fatal-mistake-in/)

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> [“No, no guns, they won’t get us anywhere. I tried that when I was young and it’s a useless interim game. Use guns and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/no-no-guns-they-won-t-get-us-anywhere-i-tried-that-when-i-was-young/)

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> [“From the decks of the warships the foreign sailors watched the massacre through binoculars and took pictures. The navy bands played late and phonographs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/from-the-decks-of-the-warships-the-foreign-sailors-watched-the/)

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> [“What this amounts to, and what makes the critic with his nose for genre and structure so nervous, is that by all accounts this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/what-this-amounts-to-and-what-makes-the-critic-with-his-nose-for/)

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> [“Ah well, he thought, we do what we can. It makes little difference but we have to do it anyway. Stern’s words, he suddenly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/ah-well-he-thought-we-do-what-we-can-it-makes-little-difference-but/)

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> [“The conversation can be serious, too, taking on the form of a grave philosophical discourse as the characters take turns to expound their views…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/the-conversation-can-be-serious-too-taking-on-the-form-of-a-grave/)

[Edward Whittemore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-whittemore/)

> [“The distant rumble of gun fire and armored vehicles is the rumble of history itself, bearing down on Whittemore’s characters as they engage in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/the-distant-rumble-of-gun-fire-and-armored-vehicles-is-the-rumble-of/)

[Edward Whittemore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-whittemore/)

> [“… so it isn’t true any longer that we can just create ourselves. Now we must. Our childhood as a race is over and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/so-it-isn-t-true-any-longer-that-we-can-just-create-ourselves-now-we/)

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> [“Yes. Despite the ultimate mystery of the universe there’s still one small truth we can live by. Choice. Never merely to take what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/yes-despite-the-ultimate-mystery-of-the-universe-there-s-still-one/)

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> [“… a night twenty years ago and forever and but a prelude to the century, but a shadow of the far deeper descent into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/a-night-twenty-years-ago-and-forever-and-but-a-prelude-to-the-century/)

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> [“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/something-else-apart-from-this-heady-fusion-draws-us-in-to-nile/)

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> [“… and just as suddenly he was with Stern and it was a night twenty years ago in a city once called Smyrna, once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/and-just-as-suddenly-he-was-with-stern-and-it-was-a-night-twenty/)

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> [“The real protagonists of the Quartet are surely the parched and beautiful deserts of the biblical lands, with their oases and ruins, and above…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/the-real-protagonists-of-the-quartet-are-surely-the-parched-and/)

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