He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.
John Le CarréTag: human-nature
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
John Le CarréTag: human-nature
He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man
John Le CarréTag: human-nature
society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.
John Le CarréThey might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
John Le CarréTag: individualism materialism
It dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle-age without ever being young, and that he was, in the nicest possible way, "on the shelf".
John Le CarréTag: midlife-crisis
It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.
John Le CarréTag: status-quo bureaucracy conventionalism
He appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes.
John Le CarréTag: taste modesty ostentation
Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out, go back on your tracks. Be testy, be cussed, be difficult. Drink like a fish; don't give way on the ideology, they won't trust that. They want to deal with a man they've bought; they want the clash of opposites, Alec, not some half-cock convert.
John Le CarréTag: betrayal spy lying-games
We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?
John Le CarréTag: loneliness isolation spying espionage
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