10 quotes found
“To dream in doctrines, how tidy!”
“She had the experience to suffer with discretion.”
“one of those world builders who do othing but destroy,”
“society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.”
“They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.”
“Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”
“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”
“He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.”
“Afterwards Smiley always thought of that interview as a fan dance; a calculated progression of disclosures, each revealing different parts of a mysterious entity. Finally Steed-Asprey, who seemed t...”
“But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who had robbed him of his peace, Ann who had once made the present so impo...”
