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“One thing one learned from one's colonial masters. / One makes money from other people's disasters.”
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“[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!”
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“Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.”
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“... writing is the only thing that ... when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead ...”
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“... the truly covetous have never enough!”
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“If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.”
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“Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery, it is not words that make it so in life, but words have to make it so in a story. Brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go ...”
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“Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun.”