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“With the probable exception of the bond between husband and wife, every liaison between people in this society takes on some forms of this patron-client relationship”

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“Feudalism, that discreet system of gentlemen gangsters and serfs, had never died out in the region, and was concealed in the trappings of modern buildings and streets. Only a lunatic would quarrel with his master; only a fool would not understand that he stood in the steel jaws of death his entire life.”

Crime Fiction Thailand History Of Mankind Feudalism Authority And Attitude Bangkok Fiction

Book:Spirit House

Source: Spirit House

“Of course, we Chinese are not allowed to own land, but Thai landowners are always in need of money.”

Thailand

Book:Letters from Thailand

Source: Letters from Thailand

“Malene på Holstebro Rejsecenter hjalp mig med at navigere i de konstant justerede regler om bookning af flybilletter, aflysninger, refusion og tilvejebringelsen af det særlige Thailand Pass, som alle udlændinge, der søgte om indrejse i Thailand, nu skulle have.”

Traveling Thailand

Author:Michael Falch

“It's a very special feeling, full of pride. The fact that our work can cross borders and spark interest in Thailand among people from different cultures goes far beyond what I ever imagined. I'm truly happy that we're able to represent and show the world the beauty of Thai culture, and I hope it leaves a positive and lasting impression on everyone.”

Cinema Thailand Thais

Author:Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai

“I love Samui in the wee small hours. I especially love it on nights like this when the white moon stares down from the blackness like the pockmarked eye of a blind god. At such times, when the island’s bright signs have paled to grey and the broom of sleep has swept the revellers to their beds, my mind’s cynical crust cracks open a little, and some fanciful poetry leaks in. Then the dark hills appear to me as slumbering prehistoric leviathans, the clouds assume the air of restless ghosts, and the moon-dusted sea murmurs in some long forgotten tongue of the divine.”

Thailand

Book:Everyone Burns

Source: Everyone Burns

“How I love Bangkok! It’s so teeming with everything that should be forbidden. I’m not just talking about the sex trade. I also mean the ways of driving, the ways of putting up buildings, environmental management arrangements, the continual attention of con artists and snatch-thieves, and the quaint local custom of peeing in side-streets.”

Thailand Bangkok

Book:Everyone Burns

Source: Everyone Burns

“Some of the streets are, however, genuinely narrow. These same streets may not be filled with machine-gun fire and the dramatic screech of violins, but they overflow with the invisible and innumerable longings of the human heart. Love continues to minister here, but betrayal still wears its perfidious face, hatred hollows out the weak man’s breast, revenge pursues its self-defeating course; and the unfulfilled dreams of the multitude haunt the island like so many hungry ghosts.”

Philosophy Thailand

Book:Everyone Burns

Source: Everyone Burns

“I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours”

Travel Police Thailand

Book:The Beach

Source: The Beach

“No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD you can imagine.”

Prison Crime Fiction Crime Thriller Suspense Thriller Thailand

Book:Lost Innocence: The Accused

Source: Lost Innocence: The Accused

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