All men are born free: just not for long.
John le CarréTag: equality class education-system
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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
John le CarréTag: roots home homecoming homelessness anchoring attachment belonging
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Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.
John le CarréTag: life future present purpose lack
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There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
John le CarréTag: choices
Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled you. I remember that exactly. He danced all ways for you, playing your emotions against each other because he had none of his own.
John le CarréThere are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
John le CarréAfter all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
John le CarréIf you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
John le CarréTag: paris-review the-art-of-fiction-no-149
It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment.
John le CarréOur power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.
John le CarréTag: power helplessness world-order
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