The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.''Of course it will, Erik.''He has never yet been wrong!''A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he f...
She was wilful, maddening, quarrelsome and intolerant, but somehow these things were trifling: there was a passion inside her that burned like a candle in a lantern, and it lit up his life.
He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he live...
You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me, she said in a matter-of-fact tone. And when you've lost everything- Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself ca...
Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. T...
She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.
He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offence; y...
Don’t worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She
Don't look so sad, she said. Her eyes were full of tears.I can't help it, he said. I am sad.I'm sorry I've made you so unhappy.Don't be sorry for that. Be sorry that you made me so happy. That's what...
When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.
Lenin’s idea of relaxation was to sit down with a foreign-language dictionary for an hour or two.
He was seething inside with a new emotion. Nothing seemed very important anymore except the Princess. He was single-minded about her. He was enchanted. He was possessed. He was in love.
He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, an...
Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completel...
Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.
He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books.
Man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: ‘So far, so good.
There’s a saying: ‘If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.
Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do somethi...
It's like knowing your way through the forest. You don't keep the whole forest in your mind, but wherever you are, you know where to go next.