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Morris L. West est un écrivain australien qui a reçu en 1959 le prix James Tait Black Memorial pour son roman L'Avocat du diable . Wikipedia  

✵ 26. avril 1916 – 9. octobre 1999
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Morris West: Citations en anglais

“You are all caught in the current of history whose headwaters rise in the dark mountains of the past. You cannot change it; you survive and help others to survive by adapting to it.”

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Siri (Khun Sirinart, a Thai businesswoman) in Ch. 15, p. 70
The Ringmaster (1991)

“Of all the animals in creation, politicians have the shortest memories.”

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Pavel Laszlo in Ch. 15, p. 260
The Ringmaster (1991)

“When friends do business, there is no need of contracts. Unfortunately, there are no friends in business.”

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Kenji Tanaka quoting a saying he heard from a (presumably fictitious) "very modern Zen master" in Ch. 13, p. 232
The Ringmaster (1991)

“Every tribe in the world had its own version of the scapegoat, marked for exile or persecution when the homefolk needed to purge themselves of their own guilts.”

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Gil Langton in Ch. 3, p. 49
The Ringmaster (1991)

“In politics there is no morality anyway. The nature of the game precludes it. A politician's career depends upon the fickle wind of public opinion. He is forced to trim his conscience to catch every shift of the breeze.”

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Gil Langton in Ch. 3, p. 38
The Ringmaster (1991)

“Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then — No! I will not recant.”

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The Heretic (1968)

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