The Quiet American Lies and Deceit Quotes

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Quote #10

'Secrecy is seldom important to a man who confesses: even when it's to a priest. He has other motives.'
'To cleanse himself?'
'Not always. Sometimes he only wants to see himself clearly as he is. Sometimes he is just weary of deception.' (4.1.26-8)

Vigot hopes that Fowler is this sort of person—a man weary of deception. In some ways, Vigot is more of a priest figure than the cleric Fowler meets in the cathedral or the bishop who had his own army.