Mark Zero Quotes

#1. This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

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#2. Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.

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#3. I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

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#4. The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.

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#5. And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

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#6. When you're used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next corner on a dead run, the best hiding places if bullets start to fly...

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#7. On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

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#8. ... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

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#9. How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

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