Colin Cotterill Quotes
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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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'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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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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'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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The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.
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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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“Sarcasm,” he said, “is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets.” Siri
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Concentrate on the small things and do them well. -Dr Siri Paiboun
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The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.
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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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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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“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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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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Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
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Somchai Asanajinda says as long as your heart can still beat for one, it can always beat for two.
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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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Forget the planet, save the garden.
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Honesty can be a dirty gift.
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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.