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 KerrTags: witty
When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.
Philip KerrTags: berlin-noir bernie-gunther
Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.
Philip KerrTags: berlin-noir bernie-gunther
I made an appointment to see him and then ordered another beer. While I was drinking it I did some doodling on a piece of paper, the algebraic kind that you hope will help you think more clearly. When I finished doing that, I was more confused than ever. Algebra was never my strong subject.
Philip KerrTags: algebra
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.
Philip Kerrthe man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions - despite the objections of intellectuals. The courage to speak, perhaps, even when he believes that what he is suggesting sounds like madness.
Philip KerrJe rêvai, non d'une ville figée, mais de la ville à venir.
Philip KerrShe was shot dead, in cold blood," he said bitterly. I could see we were in for a long night. I got out my cigarettes.
Philip KerrAll men come to resemble their fathers. That isn’t a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.
Philip KerrBerlin. I used to love this old city. But that was before it had caught sight of its own reflection and taken to wearing corsets laced so tight that it could hardly breathe. I loved the easy, carefree philosophies, the cheap jazz, the vulgar cabarets and all of the other cultural excesses that characterized the Weimar years and made Berlin seem like one of the most exciting cities in the world.
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