"The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that……" — John Mortimer
"The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality."
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John Mortimer
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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
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