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Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism. - [Journalism] One can't love humanity. One can only love people. - [Love] Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him. - Brighton Rock [Books (First Lines)] A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. - The End of the Affair [Books (First Lines)] Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork. - The Heart of the Matter [Books (First Lines)] Doctor Eduardo Plarr stood in the small port on the Parana, among the rails and yellow cranes, watching where a horizontal plume of smoke stretched over the Chaco. It lay between the red bars of sunset like a stripe on a national flag. Doctor Plarr found himself alone at that hour except for the one sailor who was on guard outside the maritime building. It was an evening which, by some mysterious combination of failing light and the smell of an unrecognized plant, brings back to some men the sense of childhood and of future hope and to others the sense of something which has been lost and nearly forgotten. - The Honorary Consul (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Castle, ever since he had joined the firm as a young recruit more than thirty years ago, had taken his lunch in a public house behind St. James's Street, not far from the office. - The Human Factor [Books (First Lines)] Mr. Trench went out to look for his ether cylinder: out into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. - The Power and the Glory [Books (First Lines)] Richard Tripp is the agent of Singer Sewing Machines in some Baltic capital similar to Tallinn. - The Tenth Man [Books (First Lines)] There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double. - The Tenth Man (Jim Bradden and the War Criminal, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral. My mother was approaching eighty-six when she died, and my aunt was some eleven or twelve years younger. I had retired from the bank two years before with an adequate pension and a silver handshake. There had been a take-over by the Westminster and my branch was considered redundant. Everyone thought me lucky, but I found it difficult to occupy my time. I have never married, I have always lived quietly, and, apart from my interest in dahlias, I have no hobby. For those reasons I found myself agreeably excited by my mother's funeral. - Travels with My Aunt (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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