23-02-2013, 03:46 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Charles Drago Wrote:1. The long-standing rumor among New York literary types is that The Day of the Jackal was written by Frederick Forsyth's editor (either at Hutchinson in the UK or Viking Press in the US).
Name?
I wish I had one for you, but I don't.
I first heard the rumor in the mid-90s, from Sam Hughes, my literary agent at that time. Sam (a woman) is now deceased.
Charles Drago
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene