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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 416188d | The opposite of love is not hate but apathy | John le Carré | ||
| ef519ba | doubtful, we shall know where the | John le Carré | ||
| 657ad1e | without the bonds of ideological conflict to restrain us any more, our troubles are just beginning. | John le Carré | ||
| 9b7ba8c | Yes, well, I always assume that businessmen are crooks, don't you, Harry? I'm sure we all do. | John le Carré | ||
| 579ba32 | he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion; | John le Carré | ||
| d5253e3 | When God finished putting together Dicky Roper, He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He ran up our Jonathan to restore the ecological balance. | John le Carré | ||
| 523b041 | What in Britain is called the Special Relationship, in Germany is called treason. | John le Carré | ||
| efabfd9 | has delegated swathes of its own foreign policy to its spies, a thing the United States has done rather too frequently in recent years. | John le Carré | ||
| 9892af5 | The bad dream turned out to be one that a lot of people in the world were sharing, since it asked the same old question that we are asking ourselves fifty years later: how far can we go in the rightful defense of our Western values without abandoning them along the way? | John le Carré | ||
| 235c46f | When two people have decided to go to bed with each other, what passes between them before the event is a matter of form rather than of content. | John le Carré | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 4d7b7fd | Mama's eyes were like pale blue cutouts, pasted to her face. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 175d2be | caughtoutedness. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 2ba30d6 | It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, | Markus Zusak | ||
| cfef393 | No one's urine smells as good as your own. The | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1995b0f | Say a prayer at the stones of home | Markus Zusak | ||
| 80f7cbf | How well do we really let ourselves know each other? | Markus Zusak | ||
| ad3e5cd | I laugh and the stars watch. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a79431d | He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again, and would go to his grave without them. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3f05928 | Rosa was sitting with the accordion, praying. 'Make them come back alive,' she repeated. 'Please, Lord, please. All of them.' Even the wrinkles around her eyes were joining hands. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f46c1ec | A thirteen year olds heart shouldn't feel like this. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 067453e | A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ab2a134 | A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children | Markus Zusak | ||
| d26d924 | Believe it or not - it takes a lot of love to hate you. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e6955e1 | It was pointless. The crowd was itself. There was no swaying it, squeezing through, or reasoning with it. You breathed with it and you sang its songs. You waited for its fire. | crowd-mentality | Markus Zusak | |
| bf550f7 | I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. I watched | Markus Zusak | ||
| 2a2b824 | Slightly further afield, you will find Baroque palaces such as Nymphenberg and Schlossheim, with wonderful parks and art galleries. On a slightly darker note, Dachau Concentration Camp is around 10 miles from town. Trains go there from Munich's main train station every ten minutes and the journey takes less than 15 minutes. Transport in Munich is well organised with a network of trains - S-Bahn is the suburban rail; U-Bahn is underground an.. | Dee Maldon | ||
| 59af60a | I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. | Markus Zusak |