Top 35 Colin Cotterill Quotes
#1. Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.
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#2. I don't know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.
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#3. Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.
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#4. Yes, Siri. A dedicated socialist plunges headfirst into the troubled waters without testing the depth." "Isn't he likely to bump his head on the bottom?" Siri asked.
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#5. He never tired of watching her breathe. Every night spent beside her was an honour.
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#6. I dreamed the world was an awful place," he said.
"It wasn't a dream," she told him.
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#7. Sarcasm," he said, "is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you've run out of bullets." Siri
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#8. You'd then drive your vehicle to a tree, beneath which the examiner sat. He or she would ask you to park. If you managed to do so without knocking over the tree or hitting the examiner, you had a license.
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#9. There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.
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#10. A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
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#11. I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.
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#12. the overriding thought in my mind is that I didn't have the foresight to say goodbye or thank you to the people I love. That sounds corny, I know, but what's wrong with corny? It has its place.
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#13. There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul
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#15. He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.
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#17. When did we get too old for this, Daeng? What happened to those days when we were somersaulting through the air with a cutlass in each hand taking out the enemy twenty at a time?"
"I don't think that was us, Love. That was Bruce Lee.
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#18. So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.
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#19. Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.
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#20. Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
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#21. I'm left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there's nothing unskilled about labor.
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#22. His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn't have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.
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#23. Do you suppose it all means something?
That we're being left clues?
Perhaps.
Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.
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#24. Socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.
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#26. Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole ...
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#27. Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he'd had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.
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#28. Chom. Don't you have an urge to see justice done?" "It's not nearly as strong as my urge to reach forty with a complete set of limbs.
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#29. The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.
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#30. May I ask how your revolution's going?
Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.
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#31. The woman's brain has two hemispheres," she slurred. "One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.
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#32. You didn't have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin.
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#33. He often talked to himself when he was overwhelmed with fear. He saw it as a more dignified reaction than wetting himself. And
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#34. If nothing else, my analysis of George W.'s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.
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#35. As Siri walked along that oh-so-noisy riverbank on his way to work, he saw a pelican gliding above the surface of the water. It was a marvelous bird, proud and resourceful, and he imagined how it would taste with a little chili paste and fresh yams. Hungry people made poor environmentalists.
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