Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
Over them, in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note.
Only adults had nervous breakdowns in those days, so the methods of survival for boys who refused to join the system were animal cunning, internal immigration as the Germans call it, or simply getting...
I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now i wish i could distinguish them.
His secretive nature detested the purpose of all interviews, their oppressive intimacy, their inescapable reality.
Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness.
Germany’s emergence as a self-confident, non-aggressive, democratic power – not to speak of the humanitarian example it has set – is a pill too bitter for many of us Brits to swallow. That is a sadnes...
Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time,...
Essere inumani in difesa della nostra umanità, spietati in difesa della compassione. Essere monotoni in difesa della nostra varietà.
En vandaar dwaalde hij af naar een meningsverschil met Friedrich Schillers hoogdravende theorie dat wat de goden tevergeefs bestreden menselijke domheid was. Daar was Toby het niet mee eens. Dat was v...
Dealing with beautiful women, Your Grace, Craw had warned, is like dealing with known criminals, and the lady you are about to solicit undoubtedly falls within that category.
But she never quite saw the fighting for votes and the fighting for sales in the same way. Perhaps that was because it cut them down to size, she thought. It was easy when there were a dozen or so tog...
And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackens, that his life had consisted of a run of rehearsals for a play he had failed to take part in. And that what he needed to d...
What woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings.
You don't care much for Avery do you...
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and per...
Was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise.
Suspicion, experience, perception, common sense—for Maston these were not the organs of fact. Paper was fact, Ministers were fact,
Haunted by sad faces which moved through the rain like driftwood in a forgotten harbour.