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All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents. — Philip Kerr

She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around. — Philip Kerr

History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations. — Philip Kerr

He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ... — Philip Kerr

She walked toward me, her high heels perforating the polished wooden air of the Richmond's quiet basement like the slow beat of a tall clock. — Philip Kerr

When you're working for people who are mostly thieves and murderers, a little of it comes off on your hands now and then. — Philip Kerr

In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten." I — Philip Kerr

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different. — Philip Kerr

I shrugged. "Staying in a hotel is a bit like life. At some stage you have to check out." "Oh, — Philip Kerr

Believe me, I know a lot about harm's way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you're least expecting it. — Philip Kerr

Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught. — Philip Kerr

Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages. — Philip Kerr

Socrates learned to his cost, the true nature of democracy is to encourage corruption and excess in all its forms. But the — Philip Kerr

After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish. — Philip Kerr

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers. — Philip Kerr

If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much. — Philip Kerr

Sometimes a stupid man is only a couple of good guesses away from looking clever. — Philip Kerr

Winter came early that year. Snow filled the gray December air like fragments of torn-up hope — Philip Kerr

On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well. — Philip Kerr

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar. — Philip Kerr

His name was Kurt Waldheim. — Philip Kerr

It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it. — Philip Kerr

Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana. — Philip Kerr

to per cent I'll see if I can find him for you.' I — Philip Kerr

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes. — Philip Kerr

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit. — Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable. — Philip Kerr

Sport seems to be much more important to people than politics. — Philip Kerr

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman. — Philip Kerr

Hmm. That's what I suspected, you mad bastard. — Philip Kerr

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do. — Philip Kerr

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise. — Philip Kerr

No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there's nothing else to do in a place like this but cut your ear off. — Philip Kerr

Dalia picked up her negligee. She didn't need my help, it wasn't very heavy. — Philip Kerr

that's the thing about urgent paperwork: the longer you leave it the less urgent it becomes. — Philip Kerr

Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail. — Philip Kerr

Horror does not need the dark, and sometimes a truly evil deed shuns the shadows. — Philip Kerr

A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells. — Philip Kerr

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in. — Philip Kerr

Sometimes I think God is just the devil pretending to be nice. — Philip Kerr

thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession. — Philip Kerr

That smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men's piss. — Philip Kerr

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false. — Philip Kerr

She was shot dead, in cold blood, he said bitterly. I could see we were in for a long night. I got out my cigarettes. — Philip Kerr

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me. — Philip Kerr

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere. — Philip Kerr

It is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy — Philip Kerr

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film. — Philip Kerr

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it. — Philip Kerr

I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch. — Philip Kerr