Читать книгу Koors - Деон Мейер - Страница 3

The initial mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveller reach his starting point in the first place?

– Louise Bogan

Memories of mortification persist for decades …

– Oliver Burkeman, Help!

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

– W.H. Auden

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

– Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honour.

– Raymond Chandler