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Len Deighton, pseudônimo de Leonard Cyril Deighton , é um escritor britânico, de história, culinária e romances. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Fevereiro 1929
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Len Deighton frases e citações

“A tragédia do casamento é que, enquanto todas as mulheres se casam pensando que seu homem irá mudar, todos os homens se casam pensando que sua mulher nunca mudará. Ambos invariavelmente se desapontam.”

Len Deighton

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change. Both are invariably disappointed
London Match‎ - Página 18, de Len Deighton - Publicado por Hutchinson, 1985 - 405 páginas

De mulheres , De homens , De casamento , Pensando

Len Deighton: Frases em inglês

“The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.”

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Len Deighton livro London Match

London Match (London: Hutchinson, 1985) p. 18

“Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.”

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Len Deighton livro Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin (1964; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966) p. 145
Another Czech joke

“The factory workers say that it’s impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, "Where did you get the watch?"”

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Len Deighton livro Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin (1964; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966) pp. 144-5
Described there as a joke current in 1960s Czechoslovakia

“…But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences"
"Is there anything you can take for it?”

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Len Deighton livro Charity

"Only wedding vows"
Charity (1997; Harper Paperback, p. 280)

“Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.”

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Len Deighton livro An Expensive Place to Die

An Expensive Place to Die, Jonathan Cape (1967) Ch. 39

“When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.”

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Eleven Declarations of War (London: Harcourt Brace, 1975) p. 11