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A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9) QUOTES

A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9) QUOTES

1 " it is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

2 " It was an interesting dilemma and pointed up a real point of difference between Nazism and Communism as forms of government: there was no room for the individual in Soviet Russia; conversely not everything was state-managed in Germany. The Nazis never shot anyone for being stupid, inefficient or just plain unlucky. Generally speaking the Nazis looked for a reason to shoot you, the commies were quite happy to shoot you without any reason at all - but when you're going to be shot, what's the difference? "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

3 " the 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 Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

4 " the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

5 " This is the country for cruel experiments—it’s where idealists are sent to die, my friend. Killing people who believe in things is our national sport.” With "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

6 " corridor that smelt strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat and men’s piss. "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

7 " Is that what we are? Fools?” “Certainly. But at least we know we’re fools. And in today’s Germany, that counts as a kind of wisdom.” • "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

8 " alacrity. When the head was completely severed he lifted "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

9 " Either way God was going to have to choose sides and choose soon: the godless communists or the blaspheming Germans. Who would be God with a choice like that? "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

10 " that smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men’s piss. "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

11 " In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten.” I "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)

12 " I’m sure I don’t have to tell a German what a “special operation” amounts to. You Germans use this euphemism too, don’t you? When you want to kill thousands of people and pretend that it’s something sanitary. "

― Philip Kerr , A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)