Philip Kerr Quotes
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“Believe me, I know a lot about harms way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when youre least expecting it.”
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“It is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy”
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— Philip Kerr
“Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.”
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— Philip Kerr
— Philip Kerr
Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana.
— Philip Kerr
The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you're a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you're not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.
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He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...
— Philip Kerr
All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
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“After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.”
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— Philip Kerr
“I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.”
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I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.
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The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.
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The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.
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I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.
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James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often.
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The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.
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There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.
— Philip Kerr
— Philip Kerr
At least that was what she had told me. You never know with women. What they tell you and what they don't tell you is a very long bridge across a very wide river with all kinds of fish.
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Hmm. That's what I suspected, you mad bastard.
— Philip Kerr
— Philip Kerr
Socrates learned to his cost, the true nature of democracy is to encourage corruption and excess in all its forms. But the
— Philip Kerr
— Philip Kerr
“Winter came early that year. Snow filled the gray December air like fragments of torn-up hope”
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Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.
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That smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men's piss.
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