"For the skeptic there remains only one consolation:……" — Eric Ambler
"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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9 Quotes by Eric Ambler
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In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the…
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A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then…
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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…
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Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to…
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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'…
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