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“In French culture, the best way of buying time or getting off the hook entirely in a thorny personal situation is to claim that its complicated. The French did not invent love, but they did invent ...”
“The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to ...”
“... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.”
“How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?”
“When youre used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next cor...”
“Never run upstairs when someones chasing you. Dont try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping y...”
“It wasnt playing both sides of the fence it was betting against yourself but still playing to win and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.”
“And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.”
“I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.”
“When you’re used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next co...”
“Never run upstairs when someone’s chasing you. Don’t try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping...”
“It wasn’t playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.”
