Memorable Quotes from Tom Courtenay
6 quotesUnexpected Consequences of Unusual Situations
Frayn
This was, I believe, the first recorded instance of a CIA agent being eaten alive by a rainbow trout!
Man Ray
Possums in Piedmont awaiting orders.
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The Burden of Loyalty and Betrayal
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
* while interrogating Zhivago
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The End of Peaceful Demonstrations
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
There'll be no more peaceful demonstrations. There were women and children, Lara, and they rode them down. Starving women asking for bread. And up on Tamskaya Avenue the pigs were eating and drinking and dancing.
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A Shift in Admiration and Perspective
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
* after telling Zhivago that he used to admire his poetry
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Innocuous Appearances and Hidden Truths
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
You put your knife with a fork and a spoon and it looks quite innocuous. Perhaps you travel with a wife and child for the same reason.
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The Death of Personal Life in Russia
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
I shouldn't admire it now. I should find it absurdly personal. Don't you agree? Feelings, insights, affections... it's suddenly trivial now. You don't agree; you're wrong. The personal life is dead in Russia. History has killed it. The private life is dead - for a man with any manhood.
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