The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”
“People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
“Never try to out-drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.”
“Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.”
“Allan woke up and wondered whether it wouldn't soon be time to go to bed.”
“I shall destroy capitalism! Do you hear! I shall destroy every single capitalist! And I shall start with you, you dog, if you don't help us with the bomb!' Allan noted that the had managed to be both a rat and a dog in the course of a minute or so. And that Stalin was being rather inconsistent, because now he wanted to use Allan's services after all. But Allan wasn't going to sit there and listen to this abuse any longer. He had come to Moscow to help them out, not to be shouted at. Stalin would have to manage on his own. 'I've been thinking,' said Allan. 'What,' said Stalin angrily. 'Why don't you shave off that moustache?' With that the dinner was over, because the interpreter fainted.”
“Allan thought it sounded unnecessary for the people in the seventeenth century to kill each other. If they had only been a little patient they would all have died in the end anyway. Julius said that you could say the same of all epochs.”
“You should beware of priests, my son. And people who don’t drink vodka. Worst of all are priests who don’t drink vodka.”
“There are only two things I can do better than most people. One of them is to make vodka from goats’ milk, and the other is to put together an atom bomb.”
“...you'll see that things will turn out like they do, because that is what usually happens - almost always, in fact”
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Book Keywords:
p228, humourous-situations, life-lessons, revenge
