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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
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 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
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
to per cent I'll see if I can find him for you.' I
— 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
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
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
A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells.
— Philip Kerr
thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.
— 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
