The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
John le CarréWaking and sleeping she had demanded to know where she belonged in a white man's world, and how and where she should invest her ambition and her humanity
John le CarréPerhaps it was the 'sir's' that turned the trick. At their first meeting it was Mr. Woodrow, or when they felt bold, Sandy. Now it was sir, advising Woodrow that these two junior police officers were not his colleagues, not his friends, but lower-class outsiders poking their noses into the exclusive club that had given him standing and protection these seventeen years.
John le CarréStichwörter: the-constant-gardener
People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.
John le CarréStichwörter: the-constant-gardener
Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
John le CarréOnly Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was familiarity. This how real life is constituted, it said. This is grief and hatred and people hacked to death. This is the everyday we have known since we were born and you Wazungu have not.
John le CarréStichwörter: the-constant-gardener
You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days.
John le CarréStichwörter: globalization
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
John le CarréComing home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
John le CarréGeorge Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge
John le CarréStichwörter: alec-guinness british-intelligence george-smiley ian-bannon ian-richardson moles spies
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