Eric Ambler Quotes
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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.
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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…
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International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
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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.
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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.
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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.…
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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it
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Reality is always so obstructive.
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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…
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