10 quotes found
“Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.”
“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
“I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly”
“You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.”
“There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.”
“It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.”
“People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.”
“it was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the ...”
“If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.”
“You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indec...”
