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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 31558ec | It was like feeding a small child. You couldn't over load the spoon. | John le Carré | ||
| 2b91149 | George, this is history," Lacon protested weakly. "This is not today." | John le Carré | ||
| c225183 | Think I'll just buff up the silver,' he announced, loud enough for her to hear and do something about him if she wanted. | John le Carré | ||
| f0c5046 | Over them, in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note. | John le Carré | ||
| 46e2db0 | si quelque chose peut nous sauver, ce dont je doute, ce sera la vanite (...) aucun chef d'etat ne souhaite passer a la posterite comme etant le tare qui a aneanti son pays en un apres-midi. Et puis la trouille, peut-etre. Dieu soit loue! la plupart de nos beaux politiciens ont une aversion narcissique pour l'auto-destruction. (chapitre 5) | John le Carré | ||
| c2a4fb1 | Les experts sont des fanatiques. Ils ne resolvent rien! Ils sont a la solde du systeme qui les emploie. Ils le perpetuent. Quand nous nous ferons torturer, ce sera par des experts. Quand nous serons pendus, ce sera par des experts. (...) Quand le monde sera detruit, ce ne sera pas par des fous, mais par de sages experts et par l'ignorance incommensurable des bureaucrates. (chapitre 10) | John le Carré | ||
| 23cb55f | By the by, he is a virgin, about eight feet tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge. Do not be alarmed. | John le Carré | ||
| 8711ecb | The Party knows more about us than we know ourselves,' the woman replied. | John le Carré | ||
| 171bdaf | It was the most monotonous day of my life," he replied without a second's hesitation. Then his rigid face broke and re-formed itself into the best smile ever, so that for a moment he really did look as if he had slipped through the bars of whatever confined him. "As a matter of fact, I thought you quite excellent," he said. This time she did not object to his choice of adjective. "Will you crash the car now, please, Jose? This will do me fi.. | John le Carré | ||
| 12a6ac9 | Only adults had nervous breakdowns in those days, so the methods of survival for boys who refused to join the system were animal cunning, "internal immigration" as the Germans call it, or simply getting the hell out. I practised the first two, then opted for the third and took myself to Switzerland." | John le Carré | ||
| 3f60244 | Alec, what do you believe in? Don't laugh-tell me.' She waited and at last he said: 'I believe an eleven bus will take me to Hammersmith. I don't believe it's driven by Father Christmas. | John le Carré | ||
| a8b26d8 | I'm a European, Peter. If I had a mission - if I was ever aware of one beyond our business with the enemy, it was to Europe. If I was heartless, I was heartless for Europe. If I had an unattainable ideal, it was of leading Europe out of her darkness towards a new age of reason. I have it still. | John le Carré | ||
| 170d0f8 | We colonise them, Your Graces, we corrupt them, we exploit them, we bomb them, sack their cities, ignore their culture, and confound them with the infinite variety of our religious sects. We are hideous not only in their sight, Monsignors, but in their nostrils as well--the stink of the round-eye is abhorrent to them and we're too thick even to know it. Yet when we have done our worst, and more than our worst, my sons, we have barely scratc.. | John le Carré | ||
| b211211 | The embassy's front door was of bulletproof steel lined with a veneer of English oak. You attained it by touching a button in a silent lift. The royal crest, in this air-conditioned stillness, suggested silicone and funeral parlours. The windows, like the doors, had been toughened to frustrate the Irish and tinted to frustrate the sun. Not a whisper of the real world penetrated. The silent traffic, cranes, shipping, old town and new town, t.. | John le Carré | ||
| 7b82894 | I always say South America's the only place where you cut a gentleman his suit one week and see his statue wearing it the next. | John le Carré | ||
| 045c883 | And all right, it's Merrie bloody England, it's Laura bloody Ashley, it's ale and pasties and yo-ho for Cornwall, and tomorrow morning all these nice, sweet people will be back at each other's throats, screwing each other's wives and doing all the stuff the rest of the world does. But right now it's their National Day, and who's an ex-diplomat of all people to complain if the wrapping is prettier than what's inside? | John le Carré | ||
| 2d0cc25 | Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness. | John le Carré | ||
| 747eada | Trouble with arms is, everyone thought they were recession-proof, but they're not. Iran-Iraq was an arms dealers' charter, and they thought it would never end. Since then it's been downhill all the way. Too many manufacturers chasing too few wars. Too much loose hardware being dumped on the market. Too much peace about and not enough hard currency. Our Dicky did a bit of the Serbo-Croat thing, of course - Croats via Athens, Serbs via Poland.. | John le Carré | ||
| 4f211ef | But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation. | John le Carré | ||
| 31683f4 | Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, dear man. In an imperfect world, I fear it's the best we can manage. | John le Carré | ||
| db5e655 | Tomorrow was created yesterday.......And by the day before yesterday, too. TO IGNORE HISTORY IS TO IGNORE THE WOLF AT THE DOOR. | John le Carré | ||
| d427829 | Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as if to establish whether anything had changed, but clearly it had not, and though the wind appeared a little stronger, the snow was still swirling in all directions. | metaphor pyrrhic-victory smiley | John le Carré | |
| b2ab062 | She hardly cared. They wanted her. They knew her through and through; they knew her fragility and her plurality. And they still wanted her. They had stolen her in order to rescue her. After all her drifting, their straight line. After all her guilt and concealment, their acceptance. After all her words, their action, their abstemiousness, their clear-eyed zeal, their authenticity, their true allegiance, to fill the emptiness that had yawned.. | John le Carré | ||
| 3900a02 | In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . "The" | John le Carré | ||
| 51f0a46 | Haydon was more than his model, he was his inspiration, the torch-bearer of a certain kind of English calling which - for the very reason that it was vague and understated and elusive - had made sense of Guillam's life till now. | elusiveness english englishmen englishness inspiration understatement vague vagueness | John le Carré | |
| 448e998 | Rushing toward her are all the letters of the alphabet. Each one moves in its own way, X cartwheeling over and over, C hopping forward, M and N marching stiff-legged and resolute. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| 0e0df5d | It's chaos out there, and chaos is what we need. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f73c707 | In a way, I wish I could be like that. You'd never worry or care about anything that really mattered. You'd be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is. Nothing affects you, and you affect nothing. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 50eabfc | Her knees entered the ground. Her moment had arrived. Still in disbelief, she started to dig. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't be dead. He couldn't-- Within seconds, snow was carved into her skin. Frozen blood was cracked across her hands. Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white. She realized her mother had come back for her only when she felt the boni.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 05728f0 | The point is, it didn't really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant to her that was more important. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 58c6fc1 | Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty. | Markus Zusak | ||
| d23884a | Papa was an accordion. But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out. | Markus Zusak | ||
| dbca7f3 | The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0a6cf28 | Sozlukte bulunmayan bir tanim; Gitmemek: Sik sik cocuklar tarafindan fark edilen bir guven ve sevgi eylemi. | Markus Zusak | ||
| fbc48fe | She had seen her brother die with one eye open, one still in a dream. She had said goodbye to her mother and imagined her lonely wait for a train back home to oblivion. A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum. A young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow. She had watched a bomber pilot die in a metal case. She had seen a Jewish man who ha.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 862dc9b | You are going to die. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a31793b | There was once a strange small man but there was a word shaker too. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f1e522b | It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence. | Markus Zusak | ||
| df840e4 | A pair of train guards. A pair of grave diggers. When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one? | Markus Zusak | ||
| b0af8e7 | How many people get this chance? And of those few, how many actually take it? | Markus Zusak | ||
| c6f14be | I collect my thoughts as if they will stain me, murder me, and then resurrect me." Markus Zusak, " | thoughts-on-writing | Markus Zusak | |
| e5e65ea | The young man wandered around for quite some time, thinking, planning, and figuring out exactly how to make the world his. Then one day, out of nowhere, it struck him - the perfect plan. He'd seen a mother walking with her child. At one point, she admonished the small boy, until finally, he began to cry. Within a few minutes, she spoke softly to him, after which he was soothed and even smiled. The young man rushed to the woman and embraced.. | rule-the-world the-power-of-words the-word-shaker | Markus Zusak | |
| 521ccfa | The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 31e1380 | It would be nice to say that after this small breakthrough, neither Liesel nor Max dreamed their bad visions again. It would be nice but untrue. The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick--but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field. Or like a timetabled train, arriving at a nightly platform, pulling the mem.. | Markus Zusak |