the likeness was stricking. Not exact, of course - no man ever looks exactly like his father - but there was something there, no doubt about it, even with the younger man's beard and straggling hair. Something in the cast of the eyes and the bone structure, perhaps, or in the play of the expression: a kind of ponderous agility, a genetic shadow that was beyond the skills of any actor.
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone.
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease.
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
Have you ever seen fishermen when a storm is brewing on a great river? I have seen them many a time. In the face of a storm one group of fishermen will muster all their forces, encourage their fellows and boldly put out to meet the storm: 'Cheer up, lads, hold tight to the tiller, cut the waves, we'll pull her through!' But there is another type of fishermen - those who, on sensing a storm, lose heart, begin to snivel and demoralise their own ranks: 'What a misfortune, a storm is brewing; lie down, boys, in the bottom of the boat, shut your eyes; let's hope she'll make the shore somehow.
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity - Push. Click. Slide. Press -
Robert HarrisTag: archangel robert-harris
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