Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

  • If you'd had your way then, there wouldn't be much chance for second thoughts now.
  • No justice system can ever be free of human error.
  • There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
  • Without a surrounding context of harmony, disharmony was meaningless and uninteresting.
  • He was infinitely diluted; he was simply the sum of all the people who had listened to him, and when he was alone, he was nothing at all.
  • Perhaps every century there was an exception or two to be made.
  • Sometimes the work was hard, and you had to do whatever experience had taught you was most effective.
  • If it's okay to be a transvestite, then it's okay for a racist to be one. What's not okay is to be a racist.
  • The best ideas were the ones that survived and were strengthened by intelligent opposition.
  • Love was a greater force than spite.
  • A letter sent in fury merely put a weapon into the hands of your enemy. Poison, in preserved form, to be used against you long into the future.
12/22/2010

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