"Our Man in Havana" Quotes
A vacuum cleaner salesman in Cuba becomes an accidental spy and creates a web of lies to impress his handlers.
fiction | 220 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of.
Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love.
A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
It's a terrible thing to be lonely, isn't it?
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree.
I suppose what I am really saying is that all this is much more dangerous than you think. I hope that my fears will prove groundless.
You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
A pity to destroy a good illusion, but the time has come for it to go.
It's not the same. It's never the same when you're actually doing it.
