John Mole

Quotes

• “For many of our Greek friends a book is a final desperate attempt to fill the existential void when there is no one to t...”
• “When we westerners pray we join our hands, close our eyes, kneel, hunch up and put our hands over our faces to close up ...”
• “I prefer not to elaborate on the various stages of our dealings over the next few days - disbelief, anger, recrimination...”
• “Greek is a wonderfully rich and expressive language, which makes it one of the harder of the European tongues to learn. ...”
• “What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witne...”
• “It was my first dead body and I waited for the appropriate feelings. I didn't know what feelings to expect, which was wo...”
• “The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of deali...”
• “For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even d...”