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Len Deighton – brytyjski historyk wojskowości, dziennikarz, pisarz, producent filmowy, autor popularnych powieści szpiegowskich, reportaży historycznych o II wojnie światowej i książek kucharskich. Na podstawie kilku jego powieści nakręcono filmy i serie telewizyjną. W 1984 został laureatem nagrody Martin Beck Award za powieść Berlin Game. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Luty 1929
Len Deighton: 7   Cytatów 0   Polubień

Len Deighton: Cytaty po angielsku

“The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.”

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Len Deighton książka London Match

London Match (London: Hutchinson, 1985) p. 18

“Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.”

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Len Deighton książka Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin (1964; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966) p. 145
Another Czech joke

“The factory workers say that it’s impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, "Where did you get the watch?"”

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Len Deighton książka Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin (1964; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966) pp. 144-5
Described there as a joke current in 1960s Czechoslovakia

“…But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences"
"Is there anything you can take for it?”

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Len Deighton książka Charity

"Only wedding vows"
Charity (1997; Harper Paperback, p. 280)

“Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.”

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Len Deighton książka An Expensive Place to Die

An Expensive Place to Die, Jonathan Cape (1967) Ch. 39

“When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.”

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Len Deighton

Eleven Declarations of War (London: Harcourt Brace, 1975) p. 11