When he was 14, he taught me the three-card trick. That’s growing up fast.
He never grew up. The world grew up around him, that’s all. And buried him.
THE THIRD MAN
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
THE THIRD MAN