The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless.
John le CarréTag: exhaustion monstrosity
The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
John le CarréBy repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
John le CarréTag: politics government social-comment
God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.
John le CarréSurvival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
John le CarréSometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
John le CarréEveryone who is not happy must be shot.
John le CarréTag: happiness oppression violence shooting
It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.
John le CarréI've studied the disease, I've lived in the swamp. It is my informed conclusion that we are suffering, as an ex-great nation, from top-down corporate rot. And that's not just the judgement of an ailing old fart. A lot of people in my Service make a profession of not seeing things in black and white. Do not confuse me with them. I'm a late-onset, red-toothed radical with balls. Still with me?
John le CarréI have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
John le CarréTag: compassion spy espionage
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