When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.
Len DeightonTags: politics
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.
Len DeightonTags: humor mistakes silliness
I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information."
"And?"
"The most valuable?"
"People with information," I suggested.
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England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.
Len DeightonHe had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf.
Len DeightonTags: wallpaper nose moustache hovis
What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.
Len DeightonTags: love youth selfishness affection ss-gb
It doesn’t take much to make the daily round with one’s employer work smoothly. A couple of ‘yessirs’ when you know that ‘not on your life’ is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you’ve spent your life perfecting. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed but deliciously convenient theories. It doesn’t take much but it takes about 98.5 per cent more than I’ve ever considered giving
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