We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with . . .

To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.

he recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come,

Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren’t you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!

we are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss.

Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one’s loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

when merchants and traders begin to run wars – hundreds of lives depend on bribes.

the last few months had passed in a kind of delirium

Amitav Ghosh

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