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Dodger lived in a world where nobody asked questions apart from: “How much?” and “What’s in it for me?”
Dodger (2012)
Mmm, don’t I just know that onto the world that is people paint the world that they would like.
Dodger (2012)
That is good for a man because responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.
Dodger (2012)
That is the salvation and the demon of journalism, the knowledge that there is almost always a different perspective from which to see the conundrum.
Dodger (2012)
War is a terrible thing, and many people return with wounds invisible to the eye.
Dodger (2012)
Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.
Dodger (2012)
It’s just scrambling in the mud to find the hidden treasure, my friend, and I might suggest it is remarkably like politics!
Dodger (2012)
If you wanted to be a successful urchin you needed to study how to urch. It was as simple as that.
Dodger (2012)
Sometimes honesty was its own reward, said Solomon, but Dodger thought it helped if some money came with it.
Dodger (2012)
He assumed from this that once again he had got away with it, even though he wasn’t quite sure what the “it” was.
Dodger (2012)
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
Dodger (2012)
I meant that you are very quick to understand things, and you are a man of the world, or should I say London, which is practically the same thing.
Dodger (2012)
Can you lend us a shilling? I’ll pay you on Saint Never’s Day!
Dodger (2012)
“Interest? What’s money interested in?”
“More money,” said Solomon.
Dodger (2012)
Solomon had earlier tried to give him some inkling of what Julius Caesar was all about, and it seemed to Dodger to be about something like a gang fight, except that everybody talked too much.
Dodger (2012)
And that was how Dodger and Simplicity got into Parliament, indeed with the cutthroat razor—and with a lie, which was fine, considering that’s how so many people got into Parliament.
Dodger (2012)
The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it and then looked up at Charlie, who got the kind of smile that you get when people know you have money.
Dodger (2012)
And just as Charlie had surmised, Dodger hadn’t had a day’s proper schooling. Instead, his life had mostly been spent learning things, which is surprisingly rather different, and he could read a face much better than a newspaper.
Dodger (2012)
“What is the truth? you might ask, if I was giving you a chance to speak, which at the moment I am not. My answer to you would be that the truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.”
Dodger (2012)
That is because government thinks mostly about all the people—they are not very good at individuals—and undoubtedly there would be those in the country who consider that handing her back against her will might save any bad blood between two countries.
Dodger (2012)