Thursday, 12 June 2008

Give me the shadow

All I could see was that somehow appearances were heavily on my side – and who needs more than that? Give me the shadow every time, and you can keep the substance – it’s a principle I’ve followed all my life, and it works, if you know how to act on it.



Flashman, p.244, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.




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