"You choose the strong and clever over the weak and kind."
"That's pretty brutal stuff Nathan. Take your argument one step further, and the next thing you'll be telling me is that Stalin should be revered as a great man."
"Stalin was a thug, a psychotic murderer. I'm talking about the instinct for survival, Tom, the will to live. Give me a wily rascal over a pious sap any day of the week. He might not always play by the rules, but he's got spirit. And when you find a man wit spirit, there's still some hope for the world."
Extract from The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster.
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