Colin Cotterill Quotes
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Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.
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But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.
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I don’t know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.
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If nothing else, my analysis of George W.’s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.
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Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant’s trunk and paralyzed his brain.
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...socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.
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I am an advisor to prime ministers and presidents – a man loved and admired by the masses. I deserve my house and, damn it, I should be allowed to decide what I do with it. If I so wish to cover it in ice cream and lick it, that is my prerogative.
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Watching Siri and Dtui 'run' to the administration block would have saddened even the most benevolent of athletic coaches
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Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.
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A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.
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THERE MIGHT BE A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MOON'S ENERGY WHEN IT'S FULL AND THE ELECTRICAL IMPULSES IN THE BRAIN.
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This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.
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The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.
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In black and white it had been easy to ignore. But here was a television station with the audacity to send pictures of real red blood into everyone’s home. Our boys in the field were bleeding in color.
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There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul
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He often talked to himself when he was overwhelmed with fear. He saw it as a more dignified reaction than wetting himself.
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His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn’t have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.
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There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.
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"The woman’s brain has two hemispheres,” she slurred. “One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time."
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'A good communist,’ the man had said, ‘does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction.
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Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...
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Concentrate on the small things and do them well. -Dr Siri Paiboun
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Do you suppose it all means something? That we're being left clues? Perhaps. Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.
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A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.