Colin Cotterill Quotes
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“Sarcasm,” he said, “is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets.” Siri
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Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
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He never tired of watching her breathe. Every night spent beside her was an honour.
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“May I ask how your revolution's going? Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.
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Forget the planet, save the garden.
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I’m left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there’s nothing unskilled about labor.
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I FIND THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FAIL TO SEE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES.
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IT WAS THE TYPE OF DAY THAT COULD WILT A METAL GATEPOST.
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'I am a seasoned field surgeon having survived some five hundred campaigns,' said Siri. ‘I was educated in France and I speak three languages.’ ‘Four if you include double-Dutch,’ said Civilai.
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So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And communism had brought him back full circle to poverty. There was a PhD dissertation waiting to be written about such a cycle.
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So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.
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You didn’t have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin.
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“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.
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Dtui with her laundry-bin build was off the scale. There were no suitors queuing at her door. They wouldn’t have to dig deep to find her kindness and humour, but they didn’t even bring a spade.
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Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he’d had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.
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Concentrate on the small things and do them well.
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It was in the eyes that all the joys and scars floated like lotus leaves just below the surface of a pond.
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Faith should be at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. We’re so desperate for it we gladly allow ourselves to be shortchanged just so we can believe in something.
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The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.
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Honesty can be a dirty gift.