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Eric Ambler Quotes

English author and screenwriter (d. 1998), Birth: 28-6-1909, Death: 22-10-1998
1.
Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it
Eric Ambler

2.
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.
Eric Ambler

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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric Ambler

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International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
Eric Ambler

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In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
Eric Ambler

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6.
Reality is always so obstructive.
Eric Ambler

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Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.
Eric Ambler

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Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.
Eric Ambler

Quote Topics by Eric Ambler: Law Use Science Lying Triumph Evil Civilization Men Blood Facts Bullets Promise Important Internet Way Two Reality Political Ink Spy Shots Half Bullshit
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A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?
Eric Ambler