Let us honour if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one. Or
And the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in Interlaken in the snowless winter of whenever it was,
And marvelled at the self-regarding irrelevance of the ruling English mind.
Affectation of assuming everything was alive and potentially recalcitrant,
[...] suppose you had done that, suppose it were true — [...] would you kill a man, an innocent man—’‘Mundt’s a killer himself.’‘Suppose he wasn’t. Suppose it were me they wanted to kill: would London...
You don’t buy photographs from Otto Leipzig, you don’t buy Degas from Signor Benati, follow me? Do
There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't know that gets you.
Promise to build a chap a house, he won't believe you. Threaten to burn his place down, he'll do what you tell him. Fact of life.
Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the party leave. First, two men she had not seen...
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both...
In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . The
Il savait qu'un être intelligent pouvait être neutralisé par la stupidité de ses supérieurs, et des semaines d'un travail patient, acharné - vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre - annihilées par ce ge...
Guillam was exhausted. Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body knows what it's about, but forty is an adolescence where one sleeps to grow up or to...
Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness.
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
Demos are mock battles, never the real thing. Everybody knows where they're going to happen, and when and why. Nobody gets seriously hurt. Well, not unless they ask for it. (ch. 4)
But hatred was really not an emotion which he could sustain for any length of time, unless it was the obverse side of love.
All right, Pendel had lied to him, if lying was the word. He had told Osnard what he wanted to hear and gone to extraordinary lengths to obtain it for him, including making it up. Some people lied bec...
A vida tem de ser paga. A vida é fazer-se o que tem de ser feito, mesmo que se morra por causa disso.
Turned on the BBC World News and switched it off again. Half-truths. Quarter-truths. What the world really knows about itself, it doesn't dare say.