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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5a520ec | You don't care much for Avery do you..." | John le Carré | ||
| 0aa76af | Strange to wander in the mist, each is alone. No tree knows his neighbour. Each is alone. | John le Carré | ||
| 2246798 | En vandaar dwaalde hij af naar een meningsverschil met Friedrich Schillers hoogdravende theorie dat wat de goden tevergeefs bestreden menselijke domheid was. Daar was Toby het niet mee eens. Dat was voor niemand een excuus, of hij nu een god of een mens was. Waar de goden en alle redelijke mensen zich tevergeefs tegen verzetten was helemaal geen domheid. Dat was pure, moedwillige, kloterige onverschilligheid voor ieders belangen behalve die.. | John le Carré | ||
| 3b520f1 | I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency. | John le Carré | ||
| bbc3629 | suppose you had done that, suppose it were true -- [...] would you kill a man, an innocent man--' 'Mundt's a killer himself.' 'Suppose he wasn't. Suppose it were me they wanted to kill: would London do it?' 'It depends ... it depends on the need ...' 'Ah,' said Fiedler contentedly, 'it depends on the need. Like Stalin, in fact. The traffic accident and the statistics. That is a great relief.' 'Why?' '[...] We're all the same, you know, that.. | John le Carré | ||
| 9201c7e | It is a prison for those who fail to recognize socialist reality; for those who think they have the right to err; for those who slow down the march. Traitors," she concluded briefly. "But what have they done?" "We cannot build communism without doing away with individualism. You cannot plan a great building if some swine builds his sty on your site." | John le Carré | ||
| cae3c14 | Sometimes she thought Alec was right - you believed in things because you needed to; what you believed in had no value of its own, no function. | John le Carré | ||
| 43cee5c | When people panic, he said, they panic upward. They make for lifts, escalators, stairs, any way to go up, not down. By the time the boys go in, anyone who is not too petrified to move is in the attic. | John le Carré | ||
| 4580404 | Yet in diplomacy nothing lasts, nothing is absolute, a conspiracy to murder is no grounds for endangering the flow of conversation. | John le Carré | ||
| 7ee139a | And in his customary corner, the awesome Rocker, Superintendent of Police, ex-Palestine, ex-Kenya, ex-Malaya, ex-Fiji, an implacable warhorse with a beer, one set of slightly reddened knuckles, and a weekend copy of the South China Morning Post. | John le Carré | ||
| 8461117 | Without clear language, there is no standard of truth. --JOHN LE CARRE | Michiko Kakutani | ||
| a1fda22 | T]hey always think they can improve upon nature and mend what God has made. | Anna Sewell | ||
| 9ed6fe4 | O]nce you can read, you can no longer open a book and see a jumble of letters; after you get to know someone's face, you can't see her as a stranger. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| 961c24f | don't want to make photographs. The way you described it with Capa's work is exactly right: I want to make windows. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| b6e79e5 | Picture or no picture, people will keep killing each other using methods old and new--day after day, year after year, centuries of killing--until one way or another we're all dead, and all the guns and cameras of the world are just so much garbage lying in the dirt. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| d91b61f | We are, because we remember. As each new present blinks out, its heart is weighed and then judged, preserved in mental amber or consumed. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| a838684 | Eliza wonders if death is not a sleep you can't wake up from but life reduced to one inescapable moment. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| 5298116 | Miriam came to consider Eliza a gosling born into a family of ducks, loved and accepted, but always and forever a goose. | Myla Goldberg | ||
| 6accd4a | I]f they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't. | Anna Sewell | ||
| 20da4f8 | I am never afraid of what I know. | Anna Sewell | ||
| 4d7b7fd | Mama's eyes were like pale blue cutouts, pasted to her face. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 405cb42 | The thief upon the cross and the beloved John were alike complete in Christ. | Anna Shipton | ||
| 175d2be | caughtoutedness. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3becc65 | The disciple whom Jesus loved leaned on His bosom. Dear friend, where are you? | Anna Shipton | ||
| a0aa6aa | Conversations, in a family, become linguistic archaeology. They build the world we share, layer it in a palimpsest, give meaning to our present and future. The question is, when, in the future, we dig into our intimate archive, replay our family tape, will it amount to a story? A soundscape? Or will it all be sound rubble, noise, and debris? | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| a40c2ad | I have never committed the least matter to Him that I have not had reason for endless praise. | Anna Shipton | ||
| 82d3e25 | They don't need me to be another Establishment designer. That's not what I'm good at... | Anna Sui | ||
| 05ac751 | I'm always about optimism and exuberance. It's what I feel about fashion. | Anna Sui | ||
| 213e384 | Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. | Anna Sui | ||
| a43be70 | To stand out in the crowd I liked the color purple. | Anna Sui | ||
| ec6f499 | I think a dream can take you farther than anything. | Anna Sui | ||
| 5e4ef11 | I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us. | Anna Sui | ||
| a0b5ff8 | I love research. I love learning... | Anna Sui | ||
| 2ba30d6 | It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, | Markus Zusak | ||
| 38d059e | I live for fashion. | Anna Sui | ||
| f5b6aac | I don't answer to anyone. | Anna Sui | ||
| 3a04bb9 | I am a New York designer and the things are made in New York... | Anna Sui | ||
| 03af9bc | I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs... | Anna Sui | ||
| ec7865c | Sargasso Sea, which, the boy says, gets its name from the enormous quantities of sargassum seaweed that float there, almost motionless, trapped by currents that circle clockwise. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| d11066e | American television is popular everywhere and its what I grew up on. | Anna Sui | ||
| cfef393 | No one's urine smells as good as your own. The | Markus Zusak | ||
| b0f496d | line of an Ezra Pound poem I've never quite understood or remembered the title of: "Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea." | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| 72dc4d1 | Be true to yourself and figure out what it is that you are good at. | Anna Sui | ||
| 1995b0f | Say a prayer at the stones of home | Markus Zusak |