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"(...) Is Modesty Blaise the real name?"
"Real enough." She watched a seagull glide down in a wide curve toward the sea. "When you don't have a name, you have to choose one."

- Modesty Blaise about herself in Modesty Blaise (p.79).


She nodded agreement. "He's a voracious reader, and he's got a good mind. With a different start, he could have gone anywhere.
"What does he read?"
"Biography, military history, technical books, science-fiction -- almost anything but general fiction and travel. And he has total recall."

- Modesty about her friend Willie Garvin (p.128).


Willie Garvin's long-held view was that in these soft and secure days life was held too sacred, and that the high importance attached to it was no part of natural law. In the natural order of things, life had always been cheap. You came and you went and it didn't much matter. Only cruelty disturbed him.

- Willie about himself (p.213).