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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.
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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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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 might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?
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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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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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International big business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood!
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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 their turn.
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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. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence'. For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.
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A Frenchman named Chamfort, who should have known better, once said that chance was a nickname for Providence.
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Born:
June 28, 1909
Died:
October 22, 1998
(aged 89)
Bio:
Eric Clifford Ambler was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter.
Known for:
Journey into Fear (1940)
Epitaph for a spy (1938)
Judgment on Deltchev (1951)
The Light of Day (1962)
Passage of Arms (1959)
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